Re: what does ssh use instead of /bin/login?

From: sekn (sekn@dev.null)
Date: 06/28/02 

From: sekn <sekn@dev.null>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 22:40:11 GMT

For interactive logins the behavior will be more like you expect.
see: man 5 sshd_config

On 25 Jun 2002 16:21:44 -0700, Igor B <igor_bumshteyn@yahoo.com> told me:
> i understand the login mechanism on a unix machine. what i'm trying to
> establish is how ssh logs in the user as opposed to telnet
> as far as i know, when you telnet, tty execs into /bin/login and after
> successful authorization it execs into shell and shell runs all init
> files. the reason i'm posting this is because of the problem i'm
> having w/ ssh3.1.0 on sco5.0.5 box.
> when i login via regular telnet everything is ok. however when i login
> via ssh not all env variables get initialized. what's wierd is that it
> happens 3 out 5 times. i traced it step by step and it turns out that
> the last line in /etc/profile, which sets some env variables, is not
> being executed.
> any thoughts on that?
> thanks 

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