Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20050607192758.07159500@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:50:53 -0400 To: cygwin AT trodman DOT com (Tom Rodman), cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: how2 set PATH for noninteractive restricted rbash shell? In-Reply-To: <200506072010.j57KAKea003183@tigris.pounder.sol.net> References: <200506072010 DOT j57KAKea003183 AT tigris DOT pounder DOT sol DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 04:10 PM 6/7/2005, you wrote: > > >I want to be able to run a noninteractive command like > > ssh joedoe AT myhost DOT mydomain DOT xxx somecommand > >where user "joedoe" has /bin/rbash in /etc/passwd for a shell. > > How do I restrict the PATH that is seen for the above ssh session? > >I have tried changing and exporting PATH in ~joedoe/.bashrc but this >file is not read by prior to running "somecommand" above. This isn't a Cygwin-specific question so it's really off-topic for this list. Of course, you can always use something like ~/.bash_login. See the bash man page for more details and what files get executed when. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/