Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 12:23:15 -0400: > Here's the Red Hat published bug report on it, that goes into more > detail and workaround attempts, back at Fedora 9 and the change from > OpenSSH 5.0p1 to OpenSSH 5.1p1. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458839 > > The key is here: > > The .bashrc should be read by bash only when the shell is > interactive or when the stdin is a socket. In the 5.0p1 and older > versions the stdin was socket but that caused other problems. Now the > stdin is pipe and thus the .bashrc is not read > > This looks like a consequence of a reasonable change in sshd, but it's > caused issues. And the funky flipping workarounds proposed to restore > this behavior quietly ignore the basic principle of "do *NOT* read > .bashrc for non-login sessions" which is right in the bash > documentation.
Thanks for the summary, now I understand what the change and issue are.
