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, 29 Dec 2004 14:14:24 +0200 Message-Id: <200412291214.iBTCEOB6004636@beta.mvs.co.il> From: "Ehud Karni" To: pierre.humblet@ieee.org Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com, " Ben Wing" , " Stephen J. Turnbull" Subject: Re: Ssh ignores $HOME In-reply-to: <20041229033942.GA624267@hpn5170> (message from Pierre A. Humblet on Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:39:42 -0500) Organization: Mivtach-Simon Insurance agencies Reply-to: ehud@unix.mvs.co.il References: <00e801c4ed55$f82628f0$220110ac@neeeeeee2> <20041229033942.GA624267@hpn5170> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8-i Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:39:42 -0500, Pierre A. Humblet 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. -- 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 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D Better Safe Than Sorry -- 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/