Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:21:48 +0300 Message-Id: <200304301021.h3UALme0016038@beta.mvs.co.il> From: "Ehud Karni" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ssh doesn't like $HOME In-reply-to: <20030430100856.GW19711@cygbert.vinschen.de> (message from Corinna Vinschen on Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:08:56 +0200) Organization: Mivtach-Simon Insurance agencies Reply-to: ehud@unix.mvs.co.il References: <3EAE9CC1.6060608@imag.fr> <20030429154926.GM19711@cygbert.vinschen.de> <200304291649.h3TGnpB5011725@beta.mvs.co.il> <20030429171759.GO19711@cygbert.vinschen.de> <200304300949.h3U9n2uX008695@beta.mvs.co.il> <20030430100856.GW19711@cygbert.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:08:56 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > 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. - -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ mailto:ehud@unix.mvs.co.il Better Safe Than Sorry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: use http://www.keyserver.net/ to get my key (and others) iD8DBQE+r6O7LFvTvpjqOY0RApAJAJ9DOfMJ17qfNI1fwpkOOsX2LOo53QCfdCrx 9jD0aMhA9n1EWFVzheBsdjI= =E8xQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/