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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 01:53:06 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT redhat DOT com>
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To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Problem with ssh-keygen.exe.
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Mo DeJong wrote:
> Does anyone else think that "" is a strange default home
> dir to assign in the event no NT home dir has been set?
> I would think that "/home/$USER" would be a much
> better fallback, why don't we add that to mkpasswd?

Sure. Feel free and submit a patch. /home/$USER is a good choice IMO.
What's about that: Using /home/$USER as default and add a new option
to mkpasswd:

	-h /foo/bar

which is then used as dir prefix instead of /home.

Corinna

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