RE: SSH wont execute commands with bash

 You might try adding the -t argument to your ssh call.

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From: listbounce@securityfocus.com [mailto:listbounce@securityfocus.com] On 
Behalf Of Tonnerre Lombard
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:31 AM
To: davej
Cc: secureshell@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: SSH wont execute commands with bash

Salut,

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 05:02 -0800, davej wrote:
> ------------------------------------
> if [ -e /usr/bin/bash ]
>  exec /usr/bin/bash
>  exit
> fi
> ------------------------------------

Two notes here:

1. you're not passing on any arguments. These lines should look rather like 
this:

if [ -e /usr/bin/bash ]
then
        exec /usr/bin/bash "$@"
fi

2. exec already overwrites the process so exit is only going to be reached in 
case of error, in which it might be better to return an error or whatever:

if [ -e /usr/bin/bash ]
then
        exec /usr/bin/bash "$@"
        ret=$?
        echo "Failed to execute bash: ${ret}"
        exit ${ret}
fi

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