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Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:44:41 -0400
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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.

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