X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4D6E9E11.3020507@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:44:17 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090320 Remi/2.0.0.21-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.21 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ssh and user env vars from control panel References: <4D6DB62D.4050108@cpan.org> In-reply-to: <4D6DB62D.4050108@cpan.org> Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 3/1/2011 10:14 PM, Rafael Kitover wrote: > Hello list, > > I generally set most of my environment variables in the System control > panel for my user, instead of in my .bashrc/.zshrc > > I noticed that when I log in to Cygwin via ssh, these environment > variables are not available. > > Would this be considered a misfeature? No, it's considered a security feature. The environment for OpenSSH is stripped to the basics so as to not let lots of information about the remote system slip through to the client. If there's stuff you want in your OpenSSH session that you're not getting now, a small script that you can run after login is the prescribed solution. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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