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		Filligree on July 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenSSH has some peculiar handling around command ... In this case it was about LD_PRELOAD. The behaviour is still surprising. I would've expected it to be a drop in replacement -- it is in most cases. Sure, sanitizing the environment for process calls is doable, but this also means I can't use libssh2 at all.

yjftsjthsd-h on July 14, 2023 [–]

Hang on - you can't use libssh2, or openssh? They're totally separate projects

Filligree on July 14, 2023 | [–]

I tried OpenSSH, libssh and libssh2. All three fail, though admittedly I don't know for sure this was the cause of failure for the two latter; they gave me no diagnostics.

They all worked fine without LD_PRELOAD though, so...

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