> Similarly doing ssh <host> <command> starts a non-interactive login shell. Interesting, is there a source for this? Genuinely interested, because the manpage

> Similarly doing ssh <host> <command> starts a non-interactive login shell. Interesting, is there a source for this? Genuinely interested, because the manpage leaves this part a bit vague: A login shell is one whose first character of argument zero is a -, or one started with the --login option. (...) Bash attempts to determine when it is being run with its standard input connected to a network connection, as when executed by the historical remote shell daemon, usually rshd, or the secure shell daemon sshd. If bash determines it is being run non-interactively in this fashion, it reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc, if that file exists and is readable. Sadly, the manpage for sshd also doesn't mention how exactly the users shell is invoked. It does say however: After this, the client either requests an interactive shell or execution of a non-interactive command ...which I took to understand that the shell dows in fact run as an interactive shell. > IIRC nope: distros such as Debian often have bashrc source bash profile Well, these are distro dependent things. Since I am not on Debian, I am just refering to the manpage.