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ssh forwarding environment variables



[this came up in a different thread, but since the question has taken
on a whole new bent, i thought i'd re-thread it]

i'd like to forward a customized environment variable from machine A
to machine B, when i connect via ssh.  reading the ssh manpage, it
seems that i should be able to create '~/.ssh/environment' containing
'MYVARIABLE=foo' on machine A, and then, upon ssh'ing to machine B,
'echo $MYVARIABLE' should print out 'foo'.

but it doesn't.  am i missing something?  i can't see anything
relevant on the sshd manpage, so i don't think i need to do anything
to the sshd config on machine B.

help?

tia,

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