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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: howto change home path in /etc/passwd Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 10:11:28 -0700 Lines: 9 Message-ID: References: <1052749853.3ebfb01d553c8@webmail.imag.fr> <1052750098.3ebfb11265eb5@webmail.imag.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030416 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <1052750098.3ebfb11265eb5@webmail.imag.fr> Sylvain.Ferriol@imag.fr wrote: >but anyway , WHY SSH HAS TO READ /etc/passwd before reading options or $HOME/.ssh/config????? > > In Unix tradition, in order to get the value of $HOME one must obtain it from /etc/passwd. ssh cannot read options in $HOME/.ssh/config until it has resolved what $HOME is. It does so by getting it from /etc/passwd. -- 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/