Re: sshd, plink, bash and path problems

[Larry Hall <cygwin-lh@cygwin.com>]

At 09:56 PM 5/5/2004, you wrote:
>I'm not subscribed to the list.  Kindly CC: me in any threads that result from this email.  Thanks.
>
>Here's my setup:
>
>Client:  Win2K box with Putty/Plink
>Server: Win2K professional with cygwin/sshd (actually copssh, but it's just a minimal cygwin install)
>
>I can login just fine.  I can use public key authentication fine.
>
>Here's what I'd like to do:
>
>plink -batch -2 -i C:\path\to\my\key\mykey.PPK -l tims 159.87.127.66 mkdir -p /var/some/dir/that/does/not/exist
>
>Nothing happens.  Here's something else I tried to see what's going on:
>
>plink -batch -2 -i C:\path\to\my\key\mykey.PPK -l tims 159.87.127.66 echo $PATH
>/cygdrive/c/j2sdk...
>
>Basically my entire Windows path prints out -- NOT my cygwin path.  I saw another post on this in a different context (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01700.html), and I can see that it's a matter of commands getting executed when the login process happens.  So then I tried this:
>
>plink -batch -2 -i C:\path\to\my\key\mykey.PPK -l tims 159.87.127.66 source /etc/profile; echo $PATH
>/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT
>
>And got the output I expected.  BUT, the plink command is being issued by a program that I can't modify (apache's maven deploy plugin), so I wondered two things:
>
>1. What's different between plink <host> <command> and plink <host> (which displays a prompt) that causes the magical "login" process to occur.  Is this a plink thing? a bash thing? a cygwin-version-of-either thing?
>
>2. Is there a file (.rc something-or-other perhaps?) that I can create that will make the "source /etc/profile" call once plink connects, so I can have the right path when <command> happens?
>
>Any help with this would be most appreciated.


Sorry, I don't use putty or plink (and actually since they aren't part of 
the Cygwin distribution, much discussion of them is off-topic for this 
list).  But I expect your problem isn't putty/plink specific but rather
operator-error.  I can reproduce the same "problem" you're reporting with
'ssh' (which is part of the Cygwin distribution).  I believe you want:

plink -batch -2 -i C:\path\to\my\key\mykey.PPK -l tims 159.87.127.66 'echo $PATH'

Does that clarify what's going on for you?


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