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Kyle A. Dawson wrote:
> I forgot to add the bash part.  
> So if I give it the option to run bash it works, I get a prompt.  
> 
> ssh myhost bash --login -i
> 
> So why do I have to now give it the option to run bash?  It should do that
> automatically?

To me, this suggests that you have a bashism in your /etc/profile or
~/.profile and that your login shell is not bash.  Check your user's
entry for /etc/passwd and change it to bash if you want bash.

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