Bug 1336

Summary:	Environment variable changes
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	PFudd <kernel>
Component:	ssh	Assignee:	Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	djm
Priority:	P2
Version:	4.3p2
Hardware:	ix86
OS:	Linux

Description PFudd 2007-07-08 06:36:44 AEST

I'm using rxvt-unicode as my terminal program.  It has a TERM environment variable of 'rxvt-unicode'.  My system has entries for that in termcap and terminfo.  Everything is hunky-dory.

When I ssh to another person's system, they don't have entries for that in termcap and terminfo.  I'd like to add an entry in ~/.ssh/config that lets me set the TERM environment variable, but that's apparently not an option yet.  My hackish solution is 'env TERM=xterm ssh somehost'.

I can't see where TERM is defined as an environment variable that should be sent; it's not in ~/.ssh/config nor /etc/ssh/ssh_config.  The man pages don't mention TERM; they explicitly say that no environment variables are sent (man ssh_config, look for SendEnv).  'Man slogin' says that some environment variables are set on the server side; but TERM isn't one of them.

Thanks!

Comment 1 Damien Miller 2008-06-12 17:47:56 AEST

Yes, the $TERM supplied by the client takes precedence over any one set in ~/.ssh/config.

On the other hand, you can set it in your shell's initialisation (.profile, .bash_profile) and also in ~/.ssh/environment (which does take precedence over the client-specified $TERM).

.ssh/environment is documented in the sshd(8) manpage.

Comment 2 Damien Miller 2008-07-22 12:19:09 AEST

Mass update RESOLVED->CLOSED after release of openssh-5.1