Fix SSH invocation when local SHELL misbehaves #11021
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Motivation
Setting it to /bin/sh will make it more predictable when users have their favorite shell in SHELL, which might not behave as expected. For instance, a bad rc file could send something to stdout before our LocalCommand gets to write "started".
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