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    Manually sourcing ~/.bashrc is not necesary, it happens by default. It fact, it seems to me like a bad idea. Commented Dec 25, 2016 at 3:53
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    $PATH does not expand from ~/.ssh/environment, at least not in OpenSSH_7.9p1, OpenSSL 1.1.1b 26 Feb 2019. Commented Oct 23, 2019 at 8:31
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    @Jaakko It is probably disabled in sshd_config using PermitUserEnvironment (default in recent versions) Commented Oct 23, 2019 at 8:35
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    I figured it out, it was not expanding because I added a line PATH="$PATH:/new/path" to my ~/.ssh/environment when it should have been PATH=$PATH:/new/path Commented Oct 23, 2019 at 8:42
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    On MacOS Catalina OpenSSH_8.1p1 be warned you better do $ echo "PATH=$PATH" > ~/.ssh/environment cause $PATH does not expand Commented Oct 21, 2020 at 10:58