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Re: ssh doesn't like $HOME
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:08:56 +0200, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 12:49:02PM +0300, Ehud Karni wrote:
> > NO. it is using $HOME also for the .ssh directory.
>
> What you see isn't ssh, it's the fallback to a Cygwin internally
> generated passwd entry if Cygwin couldn't read /etc/passwd. ssh
> doesn't even get that /etc/passwd is unreadable.
Thank you, I did not know that.
The end result is - from the user point of view - that ssh DO USE
the HOME environment variable (that allows me to run ssh on windows
machines without installing Cygwin, even to run it from CD).
Ehud.
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