setting environment for SSH and SCP session

From: Claus Østby Nielsen (cni_at_privat.dk)
Date: 04/25/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 09:26:05 +0200

Can anyone point me to the docs that tell you how to set the
environment when you execute commands remotely via ssh?.

If I login using "ssh remotehost" then I get a reasonable environment,
probably comes from my .profile, however if I "ssh remotehost command"
then the environment that the command runs in is quite spartan.

What I need to know is how do I configure the environment in the
second case, specifically I need to add the usual */bin paths to the
PATH variable.

My default shell is '/bin/sh'

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