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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Pass path variable on SSH Post 303032662 by bakunin on Thursday 21st of March 2019 11:16:06 AM
Old 03-21-2019
If i get that right:

You have a server onto which you want to log on using a certain user. If you connect from host A you want the user, after logging in, to go to one certain directory, if you connect from host B you want to go to another directory and so on. Is that right?

If so: there are several options you have. First you could use the output of who -a to find out from where you have connected. A sample output will look similar to:

Code:
bakunin@host $ who -a
           system boot  2019-03-20 15:29
           run-level 3  2019-03-20 15:29
LOGIN      tty1         2019-03-20 15:29              7581 id=tty1
bakunin + pts/0        2019-03-21 16:01   .          8762 (10.1.1.1)

Using this information you can create a script like this to change to the respective directory:

Code:
icomefrom=$(who -a | sed -n '/bakunin/ {;s/.*(//;s/)$//p;}')

case "$icomefrom" in
     10.1.1.1)
          cd /dir/A
          ;;

     10.1.1.2)
          cd /dir/B
          ;;

     .....
esac

Notice that you may also have a variable "SSH_CONNECTION" set which holds essentially the same information.

Another possibility would be to use different users to connect to the host so you can have different login scripts which put you into different directories. All these users might at the end switch their effective UID (via su) so that you end up with always the same user but in different directories.

There will be a myriad of other possibilites, but as long as you do not explain what you (in the grand scheme of things) want to achieve it is hard to find out which one of them is feasible and which one isn't. So tell us about your plans and we will be better able to help you.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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rhosts(5)							File Formats Manual							 rhosts(5)

Name
       rhosts - list of hosts that are logically equivalent to the local host

Syntax
       /$HOME/.rhosts

Description
       The  file  allows  a  user  who has an account on the local host to log in from a remote host without supplying a password.  It also allows
       remote copies to the local host.

       If the file exists, it is located in a user's home directory.  It is not a mandatory file, however.

       The format of a file entry is:
       hostname [username]
       The hostname is the name of the remote host from which the user wants to log into the local host.  The username is the user's login name on
       the remote host.  If you do not specify a user name, the user must have the same login name on both the remote and local hosts.

       The  host  names  listed in the file may optionally contain the local BIND domain name.	For more information on BIND, see the Guide to the
       BIND/Hesiod Service.

       If a user is logged in to and wants to log in to a host called without supplying a password, she must:

       o    Have an account on

       o    Create a file in her home directory on

       o    Specify host1 ginger as an entry in the file.
	    If has the same login on both and she can simply specify host1 in her entry.  You can allow the superuser of a remote system to log in
	    to your system without password protection or perform a remote copy by having a file in the root ( / ) directory, but it is not recom-
	    mended.
	    In addition to having a file, the superuser needs a terminal entry in the file for each pseudoterminal configured in the system.   The
	    secure entry looks similar to the following:
	    ttyp3      none    network	       secure
	    See the reference page for more information.

Examples
       The  following is a sample file for the user It is located in her home directory on She also has accounts on the hosts called and Her login
       name on and is the same as on but her login on is

       To enable to log in to from and without supplying a password, her on should contain the following entries:
       machine1
       system1	gordon
       host3

See Also
       hosts.equiv(5), ttys(5)
       Introduction to Networking and Distributed System Services

																	 rhosts(5)
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