Re: Bash2 removes SSH_CLIENT from the environment

From: Peter Pentchev (roam@orbitel.bg)
Date: 01/30/01 

Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:34:16 +0200
From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To: Patrick Bihan-Faou <patrick@netzuno.com>

On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 03:09:30PM -0500, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am writing some script that looks for the SSH_CLIENT environment variable.
> As specified in the sshd(8) man page, this variable should contain the IP
> address of the client, the port number on the client side and the port
> number on the server side.
>
> However I found that if the login shell of the user is set to bash (version
> 2.03 or 2.04 at least), this variable is never set. Upon inspection of the
> code for bash, it appears that bash is explicitely removing the definition
> of this environment variable. Would anybody have an idea why ???
>
> Also the fix to leave SSH_CLIENT defined is trivial, is that something that
> would be desirable for the bash2 port ?

Huh?

[roam@ringworld:v2 ~]$ ssh roam@localhost '/bin/echo "shell is $BASH_VERSION, SSH_CLIENT is $SSH_CLIENT"'
roam@localhost.office1's password:
shell is 2.04.0(1)-release, SSH_CLIENT is 127.0.0.1 1075 22
[roam@ringworld:v2 ~]$

This is on 4.2-stable with bash installed from the shells/bash2 port.
Are you sure you don't have anything in your profiles that unsets unknown
variables or something?

G'luck,
Peter 

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