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 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: AW: ssh search identity in wrong directory Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 10:05:13 +0200 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: cygwin.20.job@spamgourmet.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Corinna Vinschen > Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. September 2004 15:01 > An: cygwin@cygwin.com > On Sep 7 13:31, cygwin.20.job@spamgourmet.com wrote: > > Hi folks > > > > I have the problem that ssh does not search the identity file ins > > $HOME/.ssh it looks in the directory which is found in the > envionment > > variable HOMESHARE. What is going wrong? How can I fix it? > > Nope, it looks in the directory found in your /etc/passwd > entry. ssh never uses $HOME. > Thank you very much this was exacty the problem. I didn't expect that I must look in the /etc/passwd, because the manpage says that it use a file in $HOME/.ssh as default. Regards Franz -- 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/