OpenSSH 3.9 released (fwd)

[Kenneth Brody]

Bob Rasmussen wrote:
[...]
> > So far as I can see, that ability was in prior releases of OpenSSH as
> > well, providing you have PermitUserEnvironment=yes in the sshd_config file.
> 
> No, that's not the same thing.
> 
> What you refer to is environment variables being set by the server, as
> configured on the server.
> 
> What is new is the ability to send environment variables to the server
> from the client.

In case anyone hasn't noticed...

Haven't you wondered how TERM gets set when you telnet in, when the host
has no idea what type of terminal you're using?  The telnet init protocol
has the ability to tell the server the value of TERM, which it then adds
to the environment.  (I'm not sure if it allows other variables to be set.)

I assume that Bob is saying that it now supports the setting of any
environment variable "name=value" pair?

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