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Voorhees51
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 Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:23 am Post subject: ssh and changing current login directory |
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Is there a way to change the directory that you go to when you ssh into a box.
if I want to go to /home/user_name/Work is there a way to do this from ssh
other than to just ssh into the box and have to cd to that directory |
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limn
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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Here are a couple of ways to do this.
OpenSSH sets SSH_TTY and a couple of other variables when you log in.
You could add something like to your ~/.bash_profile:
| Code: | if [[ $SSH_TTY ]]; then
cd /home/user_name/Work
fi |
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| Code: | | [ -n "$SSH_TTY" ] && cd /home/user_name/Work |
The two other ssh packages, ossh and ssh, likely set SSH_TTY or something similar.
If you use ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and OpenSSH, you could add
| Code: | | command="cd /home/user_name/Work;$SHELL" |
at the beginning of that file.
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Voorhees51
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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ok I'll look into that
is there a way to do it when you're sshing into the system, because I don't always want to go to the same directory when I log in |
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limn
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Voorhees51 wrote: | | is there a way to do it when you're sshing into the system, because I don't always want to go to the same directory when I log in |
Not sure I understand you. If you ssh to the system and allocate a tty, the above will put you in /home/user_name/Work. If you log in with another method, it won't. On what would going to a different directory depend? |
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nevynxxx
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| Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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If you use putty to ssh in you can have it run a command as soon as it logs in.
Just set a couple of different profiles up with directories you want to move into.
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