Glad to discuss with you again. >You probably mean Red Hat Enterprise, not Red Hat. You are right. It should be "Red Hat Enterprise Linux". >Check the user's shell and make sure it's actually ksh. It is ksh: Localhost$ ssh server1 echo $SHELL /usr/bin/ksh Localhost$ ssh server2 echo $SHELL /usr/bin/ksh Jialing -----Original Message----- From: Greg Wooledge [mailto:wooledg@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 10:56 AM To: Jialing Liang Cc: secureshell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Activity of the $HOME/.kshrc On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:38:18PM -0700, Jialing Liang wrote: > I have ssh login to two Linux - Openssh server. They share one $Home > directory. server1 runs Redhat 3 with Openssh 3.6.1 and sever2 runs > Redhat 5 with Openssh 4.3 You probably mean Red Hat Enterprise, not Red Hat. Red Hat 5.x (December 1997) is unlikely to have such a new version of OpenSSH, and Red Hat 3.x is pretty ancient (May 1996). > The problem is: If I type "ssh server1 set" in a local host it shows the > variable defined in $HOME/.kshrc. However, the "ssh server2 set" does > not show the variable defined in the same $HOME/.kshrc file. Check the user's shell and make sure it's actually ksh. > $ cat $HOME/.ssh/environment > ENV=$HOME/.kshrc If the user's shell is (for example) bash or sh or csh, this variable won't have any effect.
