Linux – ssh and cd into current directory

Check out SendEnv (in ssh_config) and AcceptEnv (in sshd_config). You might be able to send PWD; though at the receiving end just getting PWD won't be enough to make the new shell start in the desired directory.

So you could do something like:

1. put SendEnv SSH_PWD in your ssh_config and AcceptEnv SSH_PWD in your sshd_config.
2. Add the following to your .profile or .bash_profile:

:

alias ssh='env SSH_PWD="$PWD" /bin/ssh'
if [ -n "$SSH_PWD" ]; then
   cd "$SSH_PWD"
   unset SSH_PWD
fi

I don't think that's possible, but you could config your shell's init script at the server. If you use bash at the server, you could add this line to the end of ~/.bashrc at the server:

cd /my/initial/dir

Another option is to create a small script on your client for starting SSH-connections, which will run a remote command after login:

#!/bin/sh
# This is the file "/home/myuser/bin/myssh":
ssh $1 "cd /my/initial/dir"

Run it like this:

# myssh mybusiness