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Re: how2 set PATH for noninteractive restricted rbash shell?
- From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at trodman dot com (Tom Rodman), cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 19:50:53 -0400
- Subject: Re: how2 set PATH for noninteractive restricted rbash shell?
- References: <200506072010.j57KAKea003183@tigris.pounder.sol.net>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 04:10 PM 6/7/2005, you wrote:
><I'm running 1.5.17, if appropriate pls forward to the bash maintainer>
>
>I want to be able to run a noninteractive command like
>
> ssh joedoe@myhost.mydomain.xxx somecommand
>
>where user "joedoe" has /bin/rbash in /etc/passwd for a shell.
>
> How do I restrict the PATH that is seen for the above ssh session?
>
>I have tried changing and exporting PATH in ~joedoe/.bashrc but this
>file is not read by prior to running "somecommand" above.
This isn't a Cygwin-specific question so it's really off-topic for
this list. Of course, you can always use something like ~/.bash_login.
See the bash man page for more details and what files get executed when.
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