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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:21:48 +0300
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From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud AT unix DOT mvs DOT co DOT il>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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)
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:08:56 +0200, Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> 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.


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