Re: How to make sshd inherit environment variable from its parent process?

ilaiy wrote:

> You can enable PermitUserEnvironment in your sshd_config
>
> You should be able to add the variable called as "ENVIRONMENT" to your
> list and have it do the corresponding thing ..
>
>  

Suppose you have hunders of jobs of a particular user and their job 
types are different from one to another, how do you set "ENVIRONMENT" 
for each job using ~/.ssh/envionment because there are multiple jobs can 
be scheduled at the same time?

I may have missed something here but this approach doesn't look 
practical for me.

I'm looking for a way that the sshd process can inherit EVs from its 
parent process as shown below. Is there a way to do that?

26848 sge_shepherd-412 -bg
  26849 /usr/local/sbin/sshd -i     
    26852 /usr/local/sbin/sshd -i
      26853 /gridware/n1ge6u6/utilbin/sol-sparc64/qrsh_starter ...

Thanks,

- Chansup


> ./thanks
> ilaiy
>
> On 1/31/06, Chansup Byun <Chansup.Byun@sun.com> wrote:
>  
>
> > ilaiy wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > You could set all the variables you want in
> > >
> > > ~/.ssh/environment
> > >
> > >      
> > That's not acceptible for this case because I want to control user's
> > resources based on user's job types, which is determined by a dynamic
> > environment variable called "ENVIRONMENT" when jobs were submitted to
> > the job scheduler [grid engine].
> >
> > I couldn't find any other way to set this variable without intervening
> > user's own environment so far.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > - Chnasup
> >
> >    
> >
> > > ./thanks
> > > ilaiy
> > > On 1/30/06, Chansup Byun <Chansup.Byun@sun.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I am using OpenSSH 4.2p1.
> > > >
> > > > I need to make sshd process to inherit some environment variables (EVs)
> > > >        
> > > >
> > > > from its parent process.
> > >      
> > >
> > > > It looks like sshd process only inherits a limited number of EVs:  HOME,
> > > > LOGNAME, MAIL, PATH,PWD,SHELL,SSH_CLIENT,SSH_CONNECTION,TZ, and USER.
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible to make the child sshd process inherit some EVs from its
> > > > parent process?  Those EVs are dynamically set after submitting a job.
> > > >
> > > > Please let me know how to do it if it's possible.
> > > >
> > > > 26768 /gridware/n1ge6u6/bin/sol-sparc64/sge_execd
> > > > 26769 sge_shepherd-412 -bg
> > > >   26785 -ksh /gridware/n1ge6u6/default/spool/hes-hpc4/job_scripts/412
> > > >     26847 /gridware/n1ge6u6/bin/sol-sparc64/qrsh -nostdin -inherit
> > > > hes-hpc4 sleep 120; ec
> > > >       26850 /usr/local/bin/ssh -x -n -p 59527 hes-hpc4 exec
> > > > '/gridware/n1ge6u6/utilbin/sol-
> > > > 26848 sge_shepherd-412 -bg
> > > >   26849 /usr/local/sbin/sshd -i      <<< Why the sshd process inherits
> > > > only some EVs from its parent process?
> > > >     26852 /usr/local/sbin/sshd -i
> > > >       26853 /gridware/n1ge6u6/utilbin/sol-sparc64/qrsh_starter
> > > > /gridware/n1ge6u6/default/sp
> > > >         26854 ksh -c sleep 120; echo BATCH;ulimit -t
> > > >           26855 sleep 120
> > > >
> > > > The parent sge_shepherd process sets some environment variables
> > > > dynamically. Onne of them is called "ENVIRONMENT".
> > > > Using the ENVIRONMENT variable attribute [ either interactive or batch],
> > > > users' computational resources can be set differently.
> > > >
> > > > Since sshd didn't inherit the ENVIRONMENT variable, the variable didn't
> > > > get passed to its child process, qrsh_starter as shown above. So
> > > > resources doesn't get set properly.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > - Chansup
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >        
> >