Spurious characters in USERPROFILE variable when running ssh

Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro kai@vizrt.com
Tue Feb 14 16:15:00 GMT 2012


> On Feb  8 18:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >  On Feb  8 18:33, Kai-Mikael JÃÃ-Aro wrote:
> >  >  I have set up an sshd server on my Windows XP box.  If I run the
> >  >  bash shell locally on the XP box, the USERPROFILE environment
> >  >  variable is shown as C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator but if
> >  >  I run ssh to the XP box, USERPROFILE displays as \??\C:\Documents
> >  >  and Settings\Administrator.
> >
> >  Thanks for the report.  I fixed that in CVS.  Please try the next
> >  (not yet created) developer snapshot fromhttp://cygwin.com/snapshots/
>
> I just uploaded a new snashot.
>
The snapshot worked perfectly (once I managed to install it ;-).  Thank 
you very much!


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