[9471] in bugtraq
SSH puts . in $PATH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kenn Humborg)
Thu Feb 11 15:32:43 1999
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 19:16:49 -0000
Reply-To: Kenn Humborg <kenn@BLUETREE.IE>
From: Kenn Humborg <kenn@BLUETREE.IE>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
Under Red Hat Linux 4.2 with ssh-1.2.26-1i.libc5 installed
(from ftp://ftp.replay.com/pub/replay/pub/redhat):
$ telnet localhost
[...snip...]
Last login: Mon Feb 8 18:09:25 from beowulf.bluetree
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$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/kenn/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
$ ssh localhost
Enter passphrase for RSA key 'kenn@bluetree.ie':
Last login: Mon Feb 8 19:12:21 1999 from localhost
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$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:.:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/kenn/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
sshd seems to be adding '.' to the PATH. I really don't like this...
Can anyone else reproduce this? Or is it something broken at my
site?
Thanks,
Kenn
