Re: the tcsh login-shell problem -- ideas?

Will Partain wrote:

> and then shoves 'exec /bin/sh' and then the script you want
> into stdin.  As long as the shell on the far side is
> /bin/csh (the old one) or any Bourne-ish shell, it works;
> if it's tcsh, it fails.

I was playing around with this and found if you remove the "exec" it 
seems to work:

(echo "exec /bin/sh"; echo "cat /etc/passwd") | ssh frodo newgrp users

fails, but...

(echo "/bin/sh"; echo "groups") | ssh frodo newgrp users

...works fine. Weird.

Matt.


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