OpenSSH 3.9 released (fwd)

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Bob Rasmussen propounded (on Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 03:56:44PM -0700):
| On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
| 
| > Bob Rasmussen propounded (on Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:18:48AM -0700):
| > | I thought you guys might be interested in this. Of particular interest, I
| > | think, is the ability to tell the daemon to accept certain environment
| > | variables sent from the client.
| >
| > 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.

I still don't see what's new.  What can you set now, in which file, that
might cause, e.g., STORAGE=/u/tmpstorage be in the environment on my
remote shell?

-- 
JP