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 From: "Ben Wing" To: "'Cygwin List'" , "'Michael Sperber'" Cc: "'Stephen J. Turnbull'" , Subject: RE: Ssh ignores $HOME Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:11:39 -0600 Message-ID: <000e01c4ed64$e1870010$220110ac@neeeeeee2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20041228222432.04baea00@pop.prospeed.net> > What in ssh's documentation says that it will *use* $HOME to > determine where your .ssh directory is? The documentation > uses $HOME for notational > convenience and says that it will *set* HOME in the ssh > environment AFAICS. > Your $HOME directory in a ssh session under Cygwin is > determined the same > way it's determined in a local shell session. Your home > directory is defined > in /etc/passwd. Ack, the thinko strikes again ... Thanks for the correction. -- 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/