Missed the earlier part of this thread but... If you su - to another userid the environment variable appears to get unset. To the OP have you su'd or are do trying this immediately on login. I am running 5.1-stable and current and $SSH_CLIENT is valid on both boxes.
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 05:02:39PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > On Oct 11 10:38:04, be...@kroenchenstadt.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've got to port some shell scripts which rely on env vars. One > > amongst those is $SSH_CLIENT. > > > > On OpenBSD 5.1 machines, I don't get what I'd assume to get: > > > > # echo $SSH_CLIENT > > > > It returns just a blank line. > > Are you in fact ssh-connected to the machine you are running this on? > That is, are you running this in the sshd-spawned shell? > -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD and proprietary / \ http://www.mutt.org attachments Code Blue or Go Home!