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sshd, plink, bash and path problems


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Here's my setup:

Client: Win2K box with Putty/Plink
Server: Win2K professional with cygwin/sshd (actually copssh, but it's just a minimal cygwin install)


I can login just fine. I can use public key authentication fine.

Here's what I'd like to do:

plink -batch -2 -i C:\path\to\my\key\mykey.PPK -l tims 159.87.127.66 mkdir -p /var/some/dir/that/does/not/exist

Nothing happens. Here's something else I tried to see what's going on:

plink -batch -2 -i C:\path\to\my\key\mykey.PPK -l tims 159.87.127.66 echo $PATH
/cygdrive/c/j2sdk...


Basically my entire Windows path prints out -- NOT my cygwin path. I saw another post on this in a different context (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01700.html), and I can see that it's a matter of commands getting executed when the login process happens. So then I tried this:

plink -batch -2 -i C:\path\to\my\key\mykey.PPK -l tims 159.87.127.66 source /etc/profile; echo $PATH
/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT


And got the output I expected. BUT, the plink command is being issued by a program that I can't modify (apache's maven deploy plugin), so I wondered two things:

1. What's different between plink <host> <command> and plink <host> (which displays a prompt) that causes the magical "login" process to occur. Is this a plink thing? a bash thing? a cygwin-version-of-either thing?

2. Is there a file (.rc something-or-other perhaps?) that I can create that will make the "source /etc/profile" call once plink connects, so I can have the right path when <command> happens?

Any help with this would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

Tim Shadel

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