i've created a custom profile that contains custom functions and alias' etc...

it's called .jason_profile

currently we ssh to the server then load the profile manually from the cmd line i.e

Code:

. /home/jack/.jack_profile

we want to be able to ssh and source the profile automatically but without having it added to bash_profile or bashrc. the reason for this is there are many users on this box and they dont necessarily want to inherit this custom profile

was hoping to get this working via ssh i.e

Code:

ssh -t $USER@$HOST "source /home/jack/.jack_profile;bash"

this doesnt work as by virtue of calling bash, we overwrite everything jack_profile sets.
yet i have to invoke bash else the ssh doesnt work (it logs on, executes the profile, bombs out back to the previous cmd prompt on the previous host)

also tried:

Code:

ssh -t $USER@$HOST "bash;source /home/jack/.jack_profile"

so how can i load this custom profile automatically without everyone inheriting it?

had a read at a few threads such as how to stay in remote shell after executing commands in ssh? - The UNIX and Linux Forums but couldnt find the answer

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ok got it working with

Code:

ssh -t $USER@$HOST "bash --rcfile /home/jack/.jack_profile -i"

now need to do above + cd into a dir. below doesnt work

Code:

ssh -t $USER@$HOST "bash --rcfile /home/jack/.jack_profile -i;cd /etc"