On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 04:29:42PM -0500, Chansup Byun wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using OpenSSH 4.2p1.
>
> I need to make sshd process to inherit some environment variables (EVs)
> from its parent process.
> It looks like sshd process only inherits a limited number of EVs: HOME,
> LOGNAME, MAIL, PATH,PWD,SHELL,SSH_CLIENT,SSH_CONNECTION,TZ, and USER.
>
> Is it possible to make the child sshd process inherit some EVs from its
> parent process? Those EVs are dynamically set after submitting a job.
One way is to modify sshd: add a another child_set_env() to
session.c:do_setup_env()
If you're using PAM, you could have a (session?) module push the
environment variable into the PAM environemnt, from where it should be
picked up by sshd.
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