from user “john”, if
PermitRootLogin is set to “forced‐commands‐only”:
tunnel="1",command="sh /etc/netstart tun1" ssh‐rsa ... jane
tunnel="2",command="sh /etc/netstart tun2" ssh‐rsa ... john
Since an SSH‐based setup entails a fair amount of overhead, it may be
more suited to temporary setups, such as for wireless VPNs. More perma‐
nent VPNs are better provided by tools such as ipsecctl(8) and
isakmpd(8).
ENVIRONMENT
ssh will normally set the following environment variables:
DISPLAY The DISPLAY variable indicates the location of the
X11 server. It is automatically set by ssh to
point to a value of the form “hostname:n”, where
“hostname” indicates the host where the shell
runs, and ‘n’ is an integer ≥ 1. ssh uses this
special value to forward X11 connections over the
secure channel. The user should normally not set
DISPLAY explicitly, as that will render the X11
connection insecure (and will require the user to
manually copy any required authorization cookies).
HOME Set to the path of the user’s home directory.
LOGNAME Synonym for USER; set for compatibility with sys‐
tems that use this variable.
MAIL Set to the path of the user’s mailbox.
PATH Set to the default PATH, as specified when compil‐
ing ssh.
SSH_ASKPASS If ssh needs a passphrase, it will read the
passphrase from the current terminal if it was run
from a terminal. If ssh does not have a terminal
associated with it but DISPLAY and SSH_ASKPASS are
set, it will execute the program specified by
SSH_ASKPASS and open an X11 window to read the
passphrase. This is particularly useful when
calling ssh from a .xsession or related script.
(Note that on some machines it may be necessary to
redirect the input from /dev/null to make this
work.)
SSH_ASKPASS_REQUIRE Allows further control over the use of an askpass
program. If this variable is set to “never” then
ssh will never attempt to use one. If it is set
to “prefer”, then ssh will prefer to use the
askpass program instead of the TTY when requesting
passwords. Finally, if the variable is set to
“force”, then the askpass program will be used for
all passphrase input regardless of whether DISPLAY
is set.
SSH_AUTH_SOCK Identifies the path of a Unix‐domain socket used
to communicate with the agent.
SSH_CONNECTION Identifies the client and server ends of the con‐
nection. The variable contains four space‐sepa‐
rated values: client IP address, client port num‐
ber, server IP address, and server port number.
SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND This variable contains the original command line
if a forced command is executed. It can be used
to extract the original arguments.
SSH_TTY This is set