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: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:49:26 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: ssh doesn't like $HOME Message-ID: <20030429154926.GM19711@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: <3EAE9CC1.6060608@imag.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EAE9CC1.6060608@imag.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 05:39:45PM +0200, sferriol wrote: > hello > i'm using ssh under windows2000. > i'm testing little scripts which use ssh. > > to generate ssh keys for testing, i have change my HOME in win$$ to > $HOME=test_directory > > but when i use ssh, it use the keys in the old HOME directory, not in > the current > why?? > does it use the HOME variable??? ssh never uses the $HOME value. It uses the home dir given in the user's /etc/passwd entry. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/