Re: .bashrc is not sourced after ssh -t (but is sourced if -t isn't used)

[Chet Ramey]

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> The following has been tried on OpenSUSE 10.2 and Mac OS X 10.4.11.
> 
> When run by sshd, bash doesn't behave consistently:
>   1. bash sources the init files when one uses "ssh <host> <cmd>".
>   2. bash doesn't do that when one uses "ssh -t <host> <cmd>".

Bash does 1 if (and only if) it can detect it's being run with its
stdin connected to a socket.  `ssh -t' intentionally defeats that.
There is other checking that SSH_SOURCE_BASHRC enables: looking for
SSH_CLIENT or SSH2_CLIENT.

Chet

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