[Solved] Remote SSH sets shell to "-bash"?

~lynks · 2015-03-21 10:52:37

I have a fresh Arch install on a remote server, and when I SSH in I get a weird shell. ~/.bashrc is not read, and I seem to have the defaults from /etc/bash.bashrc.

/etc/passwd contains /bin/bash for my account, which is not a symlink,
`echo $0` returns "-bash" which I have never heard of?

If I run bash myself, everything goes back to normal (~/.bashrc read and such), and echo $0 now responds with the expected "bash".

Any idea whats going on here?

Last edited by ~lynks (2015-03-21 16:26:48)

Slithery · 2015-03-21 12:27:35

Do you have a ~/.bash_profile file? You'll need to copy it from /etc/skel if you don't...

cp /etc/skel/.bash_profile ~

~lynks · 2015-03-21 12:39:11

Ha, oh wow that was easy. Thanks a lot

I had assumed that ~/.bashrc was loaded from /etc/bash.bash_profile. Any idea why I got "-bash" as argv[0]?

Slithery · 2015-03-21 13:11:39

No problem.

I've come across this issue a couple of times with virtual servers, it doesn't seem to happen to me on real installations.

Don't forget to mark this thread [SOLVED] if your problem's fixed.

slithery

karol · 2015-03-21 13:21:06

It's the login shell.
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions … ogin-shell

~lynks · 2015-03-21 16:26:26

karol wrote:

It's the login shell.
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions … ogin-shell

I had never heard of this, thanks for the help!

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[Solved] Remote SSH sets shell to "-bash"?

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