X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <50A13A32.9050805@cs.umass.edu> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:04:34 -0500 From: Eliot Moss Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: environment variables in ssh non-interactive shell References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 11/12/2012 7:10 AM, Ariel Sommeria wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to use environment variables to pilot a windows system > through cygwin+ssh. Things work nicely with an interactive shell, but > mess up with a non-interactive shell because my environment variables > aren't set. > I've set PermitUserEnvironment to yes in my sshd_config, I've set > BLA=bla in .ssh/environment. Now when in my script I call 'env', I do > see BLA in it. However echo $BLA doesn't echo anything. > The only similar issue and suggestion I've found is this: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg01028.html > Obviously I use the environment file, but it doesn't help. > Does anyone have an idea what could be wrong? I wonder whether you *exported* the variables in question. BLA=bla will put the setting in your environment, but does not automatically add it to the environment of things you invoke. For that to happen, you need to say: export BLA=bla (or have 'set =a' active in bash). Regards -- Eliot Moss -- 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