openssh unix dev - Oct 2001 - Default $PATH of rsh (Was Re: What risk is X11Forward to a server?)

>Traditionally the rsh command (as implemented on SysV systems such as
>hpux which is where my experience comes from) implements
>/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin, etc., the operative directory being
>/usr/local/bin.  But openssh does not.  Which means I always need to
First I wouldn't say that HPUX was a good example of SysV, second 
/usr/local/bin is certainly not ever placed in the PATH under Solaris
(which is an SysV derivative in some ways).

In Solaris you can change the default PATH by either updating one of
the shell init scripts or chaning PATH in /etc/default/login to do it
in a shell independant way.

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Darren J Moffat

> First I wouldn't say that HPUX was a good example of SysV, second 
> /usr/local/bin is certainly not ever placed in the PATH under Solaris
> (which is an SysV derivative in some ways).
I agree hpux is a hybrid.  Which is why I mentioned it, so it would be
a clue about what I was talking about.  I did not realize that Solaris
did not do that.  AIX neither does it place /usr/local/bin in the rsh
path.
> In Solaris you can change the default PATH by either updating one of
> the shell init scripts or chaning PATH in /etc/default/login to do it
> in a shell independant way.
On AIX, PATH and other variables are set in /etc/environment.  HPUX
has /etc/PATH.  Solaris has /etc/default/login.  Hmm... Wish there was
a consistent interface to this.  And on none of those systems do I
know of an easy way to localize it for ssh since usually those are all
read at interative shell startup by /etc/profile and not on
non-interactive shell startup when ssh runs.

Bob