Where is path set for non-interactive ssh user authenticated using LDAP?

Question

There is a Mac on our network (let's call it MACHINE) that is configured to do LDAP authentication. There is no local user named USER on this Mac, but there is a user named USER known to the LDAP server.

When I execute this command from my Mac:

ssh USER@MACHINE echo \$PATH

where is that path being loaded from?

(notice the path I get that way is quite different from if I do the ssh, open a remote session, and then type echo $PATH)

There are a lot of places that the path isn't being loaded from (I know this because they specify paths that don't appear in the actual \$PATH):

/etc/paths
/etc/paths.d
/etc/bashrc

Thanks, Chris

Answer 1

There is usually a template user account provided by a Unix'y system, and I am pretty sure it will include a path in it. Usually that would be etc/skel.

On the Mac it is: /System/Library/User\ Template/