On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Modern versions of OpenSSH (such as the version 5 in RHEL 6 and > contemporary Debian releases) does not read your .bashrc for non-login > sessions. (This is actually standards compliant behavior, which > OpenSSH version 4 did not follow.) This makes stashing an svnserve > alias or $PATH setting unavailable going forward, and dependent on the > typically shared 'svn' user to have this set in their path for > svn+ssh. > I hit this same behavior working with a git install on a nonstandard path, a while back. One solution, at least on Linux, is to set "UsePAM Yes" in your sshd_config and include "auth required pam_env.so" in the PAM settings for sshd. (This is the default in many distributions.) You can then configure your custom PATH in /etc/environment, and it *will* get read by non-interactive SSH sessions. Note that /etc/environment is not a shell script; the only things you can put in there are comments and simple variable assignments. ~/.ssh/environment is also an option. You have to turn on PermitUserEnvironment in sshd_config for that to work. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington
