Bug#227474: marked as done (ssh: Message 'No value for $TERM and no -T specified')

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has caused the Debian Bug report #227474,
regarding ssh: Message 'No value for $TERM and no -T specified'
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Package: ssh
Version: 1:3.6.1p2-11
Severity: minor

I often get the following message with ssh:

greux:~> /usr/bin/ssh -T greux true
No value for $TERM and no -T specified

However, I specified -T! Even when $TERM is defined, I get this message.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux greux.loria.fr 2.4.20 #2 Mon Mar 31 18:37:25 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1

Versions of packages ssh depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.51         Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf                     1.4.4        Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                        1.10.18      Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam-modules              0.76-14.1    Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime              0.76-14.1    Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                    0.76-14.1    Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libssl0.9.7                 0.9.7c-5     SSL shared libraries
ii  libwrap0                    7.6-ipv6.1-3 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-3    compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
* ssh/privsep_tell: 
  ssh/insecure_rshd: 
  ssh/privsep_ask: true
  ssh/ssh2_keys_merged: 
  ssh/user_environment_tell: 
* ssh/forward_warning: 
  ssh/insecure_telnetd: 
  ssh/new_config: true
* ssh/use_old_init_script: true
* ssh/protocol2_only: true
  ssh/encrypted_host_key_but_no_keygen: 
* ssh/run_sshd: true
* ssh/SUID_client: true

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On 2004-01-14 00:00:46 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2004-01-13 22:09:53 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > That's strange. I can't find that message anywhere in the openssh
> > source code ...
> 
> for i in /usr/bin/*; strings -a $i|grep "No value for" && echo $i
> 
> said that this comes from /usr/bin/tput, called from my ".zshenv".
> I've just reported a wishlist bug on ncurses-bin to ask for better
> error messages (with the program name).

I'm closing this bug as the message didn't come from SSH.
And since SSH has a similar problem for its messages, I've
reported bug 571606:

  openssh-client: ssh should write its name when outputting messages

> Concerning ssh, why isn't TERM passed to the remote side? IMHO, this
> would make sense and would be very useful. This is just the opposite
> of rlogin, which passes TERM, but not DISPLAY!

After all, passing TERM without option -t doesn't really make sense
anyway.

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