openssh unix dev - Sep 2013 - openssh (6.2p2), inherit host environment variables to subsystem sftp-server process

Hi,

is there a regular way that a subsystem process (sftpserver
here) inherits environment variables from its parent (sshd)?
Namely LANG and LC_* variables.

In my case it's important to get the variable of hosting
environment and not from client side (AcceptEnv).

Regards

Martin

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On Fri, 13 Sep 2013, Martin Jacobs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there a regular way that a subsystem process (sftpserver
> here) inherits environment variables from its parent (sshd)?
> Namely LANG and LC_* variables.
> 
> In my case it's important to get the variable of hosting
> environment and not from client side (AcceptEnv).
Subsystems like sftp are executed via the the user's shell, so you can
place environment variables in a non-interactive shell initialisation
file and they will be passed through.

Otherwise, you could add them to the ones that are copied from sshd to
its child session processes in session.c:do_setup_env() It might be
worth reviewing these...

-d