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Re: Unexpected sourcing of ~/.bashrc under ssh

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  Re: Unexpected sourcing of ~/.bashrc under ssh Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-10-24 10:47 -0400

#15535 — Re: Unexpected sourcing of ~/.bashrc under ssh

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 09:01:07AM +0200, Francis.Montagnac@inria.fr wrote:
>   When logged on a machine with ssh, executing a simple command CMD1
>   that spawn a "/bin/bash -c some other command" do not source
>   ~/.bashrc: normal behaviour.
> 
>   When executing "CMD1 | CMD2", the ~/.bashrc is sourced: wrong  .

Bash can be built with a compile-time option that causes it to try to
detect when it's the non-interactive child of an ssh session, and source
the user's ~/.bashrc under those conditions.

Many Linux distributions enable this option, because they believe that
their users expect this behavior.

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