X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4E6A96D9.90801@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:44:41 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110812 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setting environment for bash running via cygserver References: <4E6A820A.5020904@cygwin.com> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; 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 9/9/2011 6:36 PM, Alan Sinclair wrote: > I had thought that/home/me/.bash_profile gets read when starting a > non-login shell, so tried to export variables there, but I must be > misunderstanding something. The environment my script gets via ssh is different > than I get when logged in via ssh, which is different again from when I'm logged > in directly on the computer, and I'd like to understand why. Environment variables that aren't required in the SSH session (to make a successful session) are stripped out for security reasons. -- 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