Failed to use against shell other than bash

[yookoala]

I tried to run sga-guard to forward to a remove server, which uses fish as default shell. This is the response I got:

Connecting to [email protected] to set up forwarding...
Failed to run remote stub: fish: Variables may not be used as commands. In fish, please define a function or use 'eval $SHELL'.
$SHELL -l -c "exec sga-stub"
^

Make sure that guardian agent is properly installed on the remote host

If I switch the default shell of the remote user ([email protected]) to /bin/bash, the forwarding would be successful. That means the agent depends on the behaviour of specific shell environment, which is not ideal.

Please fix this if possible. Thanks.

[yookoala]

Temporary workaround is to specify sga-stub location directly. If your sga-stub is installed in the $PATH of your remote environment, this should be easy:

sga-guard --stub="sga-stub" [email protected]

Please note if the sga-stub is not in $PATH of the remote user, the --stub= value should be the full path to the sga-stub binary there.

[frederickjh]

I believe that the fix the Fish shell is suggestion would also work on Bash as well. So changing line 29 of /cmd/sga-guard-bin/sga-guard-bin.go from:

RemoteStubName string `long:"stub" description:"Remote stub executable path" default:"$SHELL -l -c \"exec sga-stub\""`

to

RemoteStubName string `long:"stub" description:"Remote stub executable path" default:"eval $SHELL -l -c \"exec sga-stub\""`

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