Good day -
Please can OpenSSH provide some way of specifying which shell to use to
execute commands on a host.
For the account I need to use, the user's password shell is not acceptable,
(a ten year old version of bash 3.0)
and cannot be changed without weeks or months of burocracy , if at all.
I built & installed the latest bash under that account, in the ~/bin directory,
but SSH will not use it.
Using the client OpenSSH version : 1:6.6p1-2ubuntu2 on a linux x86_64
Ubuntu 14.04.1 host,
if I try to specify which bash to use for an SSH command like :
$ ssh $account /home/${user}/bin/bash -c 'echo $BASH_VERSION; echo
$BASH_VERSION';
something very weird happens - only the second statement produces any
output .
If this is changed, we see only the first statement is run by the new shell,
and the second is run by the old shell:
$ ssh $account /home/${user}/bin/bash -c \
'set | grep BASH_VERSION; echo $BASH_VERSION'
Produces the output:
BASH_VERSION='4.3.30(1)-release'
3.0.0(1)-release
So the first statement is run by the new shell, and the second by the old
shell.
This appears to be a major bug in OpenSSH - should I report it ?
Since OpenSSH provides no way to run commands with anything other
than the user's password shell, it really needs to do so.
A simple patch would be to session.c, @ line 1746 :
/*
* Get the shell from the password data. An empty shell field is
* legal, and means /bin/sh.
*/
shell = (pw->pw_shell[0] == 0) ? _PATH_BSHELL : pw->pw_shell;
One could do something like:
char *sh;
if ( (sh=getenv("SSH_SHELL") )!= NULL )
shell = sh;
else
shell = (pw->pw_shell[0] == 0) ? _PATH_BSHELL : pw->pw_shell;
Or provide some configuration option - this would probably have to
be per-server .
Is there any hope of getting the ability to specify which shell to run
remote commands with in a forthcoming OpenSSH release, or do
I need to apply my patch and maintain my own OpenSSH branch ?
Thanks & Regards,
Jason
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