Why does bash invocation differ on AIX when using telnet vs ssh
- by Philbert
I am using an AIX 5.3 server with a .bashrc file set up to echo "Executing bashrc." When I log in to the server using ssh and run:
bash -c ls
I get:
Executing bashrc
.
..
etc....
However, when I log in with telnet as the same user and run the same command I get:
.
..
etc....
Clearly in the telnet case, the .bashrc was not invoked. As near as I can tell this is the correct behaviour given that the shell is non-interactive in both cases (it is invoked with -c). However, the ssh case seems to be invoking the shell as interactive. It does not appear to be invoking the .profile, so it is not creating a login shell. I cannot see anything obviously different between the environments in the two cases.
What could be causing the difference in bash behaviour?