Description: Look for $SHELL on the path for ProxyCommand/LocalCommand There's some debate on the upstream bug about whether POSIX requires this. I (Colin Watson) agree with Vincent and think it does. Author: Colin Watson Bug: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1494 Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/492728 Last-Update: 2013-05-07 Index: b/sshconnect.c =================================================================== --- a/sshconnect.c +++ b/sshconnect.c @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ /* Execute the proxy command. Note that we gave up any extra privileges above. */ signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_DFL); - execv(argv[0], argv); + execvp(argv[0], argv); perror(argv[0]); exit(1); } @@ -1292,7 +1292,7 @@ if (pid == 0) { signal(SIGPIPE, SIG_DFL); debug3("Executing %s -c \"%s\"", shell, args); - execl(shell, shell, "-c", args, (char *)NULL); + execlp(shell, shell, "-c", args, (char *)NULL); error("Couldn't execute %s -c \"%s\": %s", shell, args, strerror(errno)); _exit(1);