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Re: Ssh ignores $HOME
- From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud at unix dot mvs dot co dot il>
- To: pierre dot humblet at ieee dot org
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com, " Ben Wing" <ben at 666 dot com>, " Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs dot org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:14:24 +0200
- Subject: Re: Ssh ignores $HOME
- Organization: Mivtach-Simon Insurance agencies
- References: <y9lfz1qq13x.fsf@sams.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> <00e801c4ed55$f82628f0$220110ac@neeeeeee2> <20041229033942.GA624267@hpn5170>
- Reply-to: ehud at unix dot mvs dot co dot il
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:39:42 -0500, Pierre A. Humblet <pierre.humblet@ieee.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 08:24:55PM -0700, Ben Wing wrote:
> >
> > The problem is that ..... ssh is ignoring $HOME (despite its documentation)
> > and arbitrarily looking in /home/$USERNAME. .....
>
> See last sentence in
> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC18
This last sentence needs a correction: If there is no /etc/passwd ssh
will use the supplied$ HOME.
I would replace the faq sentence with: "Note that ssh disregard `HOME'
if /etc/passwd does exist."
I have checked this situation many times, as I make a minimal ssh
distribution (that can be run from a CD/flash) that run on machines
where Cygwin is not installed (and consequently - no mounts and
no /etc/passwd).
Ehud.
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