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Re: $HOME and ssh?
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 03:20:50PM +1000, luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote:
> All the documentation for ssh says that it uses $HOME/.ssh by default
> to find then user's keys etc. For me, HOME is
> /cygdrive/d/home/luke, but ssh *always* complains about being unable to
> create the directory /home/luke.
>
> This strongly suggests that ssh is *not* doing a getenv(HOME).
You're right. In contrast to the man pages, ssh does't use
$HOME but the home directory given in your /etc/passwd entry.
Corinna
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