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How to automatically run commands on SSH login?

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Mar 15, 2026131153 views
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Whenever I login to my Linux server I'd like to have several commands run automatically (set some variables, change location, etc.) This needs to be done on user login, not on system start. How can I set it to do this?

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Put the commands in . Anything in there is executed each time you log in. If you need commands to only run when logging in via ssh (but not when logging in physically), you could probably test for the presence of the environment variable, and only r…

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