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 19:17:59 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ssh doesn't like $HOME Message-ID: <20030429171759.GO19711@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3EAE9CC1.6060608@imag.fr> <20030429154926.GM19711@cygbert.vinschen.de> <200304291649.h3TGnpB5011725@beta.mvs.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200304291649.h3TGnpB5011725@beta.mvs.co.il> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 07:49:51PM +0300, Ehud Karni wrote: > On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:49:26 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > ssh never uses the $HOME value. It uses the home dir given in the user's > > /etc/passwd entry. > > - From my experience (without reading the source) this is not exactly > true. If the /etc/passwd file exists it is used, but if it does not > exist, the $HOME is used. You can check it by using the -v (debug > switch) for ssh: It only uses $HOME when trying to evaluate `~' (tilde) in a path. 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/