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Re: Virus Found


On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 02:10:00AM +0200, Michael Schaap wrote:
> At 01:36 11-9-2001, Mark Gordon wrote:
> > >On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:27:40PM -0600, Troy Noble wrote:
> > >> Hah!  That's good.
> > >>
> > >> And I also saw Chuck's note about scp working... so maybe it's a 
> > non-issue.
> > >
> > >But that's not quite true.  This was a long discussed topic on
> > >the openssh-usinx-dev mailing list about the unluck interference
> > >of profile output and scp... Hrm, it's some months ago, I
> > >wonder if it's solved somehow and I didn't pay attention...
> >
> >I was recently (within the past few weeks) having problems with scp
> >due to this, so it is still a potential problem with some systems.
> >
> >If people are seriously interested I can investigate this further. It
> >may be that one of the systems involved has an old version of ssh
> >causing the problem.
> 
> I don't think this should be a problem - /etc/profile is only called for 
> login shells.

Eventually I figured that out.  The problem is ~/.bashrc.   If
your login shell is bash and bash has been started by rshd/sshd,
it executes ~/.bashrc.  So the rule is, no output in ~/.bashrc.

And, IIRC, the same rule applies for tcsh and ~/.cshrc.

Corinna

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