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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:08:01 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: System environment variables
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On Aug 24 14:27, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> >On Aug 24 13:08, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>How can I get the ssh service to inherit the environment variables as set
> >>in the system properties control panel applet?
> >
> >You can't.  Use one of the methods to propagate environment variables
> 
> thats what I thought.
> 
> can I get some comments and critiques on my solution below:
> 
> 
> /etc/profile.d/winvars.sh
> 
> 
> #! /bin/sh
> 
> cd 
> /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session\ 
> Manager/Environment/
> 
> for i in * ; do
> 
>  bash -c "set -u ; echo \$$i" 2&> /dev/null || export $i="`cat $i`"
> 
> done

Basically a good idea, but it probably won't work for two reasons.

- Some of the env variables in the registry are REG_EXPAND_SZ strings which
  contain other variables like this:

     %SystemRoot%\System32

  These strings have to be expanded before they are usable as real env
  strings.

- The output of cat isn't quoted, so you will probably get wrong results
  when backslashes are used like above.


Corinna

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