path environment variables and ssh

[Ted Pavlic]

>> OH, and don't forget to make sure your /etc/ssh/sshd_config has the line:

That was a typo. I didn't mean to type the "/ssh/" part.

>> PermitUserEnvironment yes
>>
>> Otherwise I don't think that .ssh/environment will get set. Your system 
>> administrator should be able to set that configuration flag for you (it 
>> doesn't seem like much of a security "hole").
> 
> There is no /etc/ssh/sshd_config.  There is /etc/sshd_config and 
> /private/etc/sshd_config, both of which have #PermitUserEnvironment no. 
>   Any idea which of these should be changed?

I believe in (at least) OS/X 10.4 and OS/X 10.5, /etc is just a symlink 
to /private/etc. So, the file is the same.

Turn that on in one (and it will automatically turn on in the other) and 
restart your sshd server. I *think* that should let you get up and 
running using ~/.ssh/environment.

(NOTE: I *THINK* there's a system wide /etc/environment that can be used 
as well, but the ssh man page only references ~/.ssh/environment (and a 
"strings" of sshd only shows the per-user environment file too))

--Ted


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