cyg...@kosowsky.org wrote at about 01:59:19 -0500 on Friday, January 3, 2020: > > The Windows variables $USERNAME, $USERPROFILE and $USERDOMAIN are set > properly > when opening a cygwin bash shell on a Windows 10 machine. > > However when I *ssh* into that same machine (under the same user name), > the variables are unset in the bash shell. > > More generally, it seems that none of my Windows User variables are > set under a remote ssh bash shell while they are all inherited properly > when opening a cygwin bash shell directly on the machine. > > I have not had that problem in the past on my other (older) Windows > machine > The only differences that come to mind are: > 1. The other machine is Win7 and not Win10 > 2. On this (Win10) machine I installed cygwin as a non-admin while the > Win7 machine was installed with admin privileges > 3. Because of #2, I start ssh on the Win 10 machine by running > /usr/sbin/sshd manually as a user, while on Win 7, I am able to > start sshd as a service, running as SYSTEM > 4. This (Win10) machine doesn't have an /etc/passwd file whereas the > Win7 machine does. > > I am assuming that #3 may be the source of the problem... > > Still seems strange that these seemingly very basic Windows variables > are not available under ssh. > > Any way to fix this? >
Said another way, assuming that the issue is my non-admin Cygwin install and my attendant need to run 'sshd' manually rather than as service, what can I do to best 'fake' running 'sshd' as a service that will allow it to load the environment variables automatically. For 'cleanliness' and 'consistency' purposes, I would like to do that as a wrapper around the call to 'sshd' rather than by tampering with /etc/sshd_config and /etc/sshd_config or by manually recreating and exporting the Windows variables in .bashrc or .bash_profile. In other words, I want to keep my standard installation configuration as clean and unchanged as possible. Thanks, Jeff -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
