On 2015-01-21, Jason Vas Dias <jason.vas.dias@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Please can OpenSSH provide some way of specifying which shell to use to > execute commands on a host. No way. The security fallout is staggering. > 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. Oh, but you could install a new sshd there? > I built & installed the latest bash under that account, in the ~/bin directory, > but SSH will not use it. ---- ~/.profile ---> case $BASH_VERSION in 3.*) exec ~/bin/bash -l ;; esac <------------------- You can build something similar with ~/.bashrc for non-login shells. > 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 . Insufficient quoting. $ ssh $account "/home/${user}/bin/bash -c 'echo \$BASH_VERSION; echo \$BASH_VERSION'" -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev