I am trying to ssh to a remote host but execute as a different group id on that host. We have multiple group id's at our site. Everyone's default group id is user. Then for specific needs, we have group ids with limited users in them. I have a process than I trying to run on a remote machine at a specific group id. For instance, I would like to do the following ssh myname@myhost myprog --display mydisplay:0 --myparam 5 But I want the program to run with mygroup as the group id and not the user group. I have tried ssh myname@myhost sg mygroup -c myprog --display mydisplay:0 -myparam 5 ssh myname@myhost "sg mygroup -c myprog --display mydisplay:0 -myparam 5" ssh myname@myhost sg mygroup -c "myprog --display mydisplay:0 -myparam 5" ssh myname@myhost sg mygroup -c 'myprog --display mydisplay:0 -myparam 5' And other combinations. (It also doesn't work for rsh). I lose the command line parameters for myprog. I tested this with a simple script (myprog) #!/bin/sh echo `id` echo $1 echo $2 echo $3 echo $4 sleep 5 I also used the chmod 2770 to set the sticky bit on group but the problem here is that linux security unset's LD_LIBRARY_PATH and so the libraries can't be found. I know I can use ld.so.conf.d to define the paths but we are developing the program and the developers are on different versions on the libraries so we use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to define the work area the user is using. If I issue the sg command locally (no ssh), then the parameters do get passed to the script sg mygroup -c "myprog --display mydisplay:0 --myparam 5" Somewhere between ssh and sg, the command line parameters for my program is getting lost.
