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Dec 19, 2020 at 22:54 comment added Maxpm @Gilles'SO-stopbeingevil' Aha! Thanks, that clarification helps.
Dec 19, 2020 at 19:56 comment added Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' @Maxpm “Login shell” can mean two different things: in the man page, it's a way of invoking a shell with the zeroth argument beginning with -, which tells shells to do their login-shell behavior such as reading .profile. In my answer, where I've added a clarification, I mean the shell that's registered as the user's shell in the user database (/etc/passwd or equivalent).
Dec 19, 2020 at 19:55 history edited Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' CC BY-SA 4.0
clarify the statement about the login shell (it isn't invoked as a login shell)
Dec 17, 2020 at 19:33 comment added Maxpm "The server takes that string, runs the user's login shell and passes it that string." On my machine, man ssh seems to contradict this. It says, "If a command is specified, it is executed on the remote host instead of a login shell."
Jan 5, 2018 at 14:49 vote accept onlynone
Jan 3, 2018 at 21:22 comment added onlynone ha! can't believe you beat me to answering my own question. I figured it out halfway through posting the question and figured I should just go through with asking and answering it myself.
Jan 3, 2018 at 21:14 history answered Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' CC BY-SA 3.0