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Date:	Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:39:42 -0500
From:	"Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Ssh ignores $HOME
Message-ID:	<20041229033942.GA624267@hpn5170>
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On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 08:24:55PM -0700, Ben Wing wrote:
> I've cc'ed cygwin AT cygwin DOT com because I've apparently identified a problem
> with Cygwin's ssh.
> 
> > Ben> And I don't know what to do.  This is the same request 
> > that comes 
> > Ben> out of using `crw'.  Everything in .ssh/ is exactly as it was on 
> > Ben> the old machine.
> > 
> > My guess is that you have a different global setting for 
> > protocol version 1 vs. 2.  Could you post the output of
> > 
> > ssh -v cvs.xemacs.org
> 
> All right, that identified the problem:
> 
> /ben 18% ssh -v cvs.xemacs.org
> OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004
> debug1: Connecting to cvs.xemacs.org [130.225.247.90] port 22.
> debug1: Connection established.
> debug1: identity file /home/Ben/.ssh/identity type -1
> debug1: identity file /home/Ben/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
> debug1: identity file /home/Ben/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
> debug1: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_3.9p1
> debug1: match: OpenSSH_3.9p1 pat OpenSSH*
> debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
> debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.9p1
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
> debug1: kex: server->client aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
> debug1: kex: client->server aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent
> debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
> debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
> debug1: Host 'cvs.xemacs.org' is known and matches the RSA host key.
> debug1: Found key in /home/Ben/.ssh/known_hosts:1
> debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
> debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
> debug1: Authentications that can continue:
> publickey,password,keyboard-interacti
> ve
> debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
> debug1: Trying private key: /home/Ben/.ssh/identity
> debug1: Trying private key: /home/Ben/.ssh/id_rsa
> debug1: Trying private key: /home/Ben/.ssh/id_dsa
> debug1: Next authentication method: keyboard-interactive
> debug1: Authentications that can continue:
> publickey,password,keyboard-interacti
> ve
> debug1: Next authentication method: password
> Ben AT cvs DOT xemacs DOT org's password:
> 
> The problem is that /home/Ben is the wrong (and nonexistent, until created
> by ssh) directory.  My home directory is /ben.  For some reason, this
> version of ssh is ignoring $HOME (despite its documentation) and arbitrarily
> looking in /home/$USERNAME.  A symlink fixed the problem; but any
> suggestions as to what is going on here?

See last sentence in
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC18 

Pierre

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