Hi there, I'm looking for a way to fix programmatically the $PATH after an incoming SSH connection, not only for remote interactive shells, but for remote command execution also. I'm using Debian Lenny with , and currently I have : user@host:~$ ssh -V OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007 user@host:~$ ssh localhost [...] user@host:~$ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/myowndir user@host:~$ exit user@host:~$ ssh localhost 'echo $PATH' /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games I would like to add /myowndir to the $PATH for remote command execution, as well as for remote login shells. As far I've investigated, $PATH is fixed by /etc/profile for interactive connection. But unfortunately, for remote command execution, this script is not executed. I would like to add this dir to $PATH for all users except the famous one with uid 0. So, I guess I can't use those basics key/value files such as /etc/environment or ~/.ssh/environment. Is there any simple way to deal with such constraints in OpenSSH? Intuitively, I was thinking of well-thought combination of 'UsePAM yes' and modules in /etc/pam.d/sshd? Thanks in advance for any kind of help, -- Rémi PALANCHER IJD/SMI Systems and networks administrator on Grid'5000 INRIA Saclay Building H tel: +33 1 74 85 42 45 Office 015
