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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 10:15:08 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: $HOME and ssh?
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On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 03:20:50PM +1000, luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au wrote:
> All the documentation for ssh says that it uses $HOME/.ssh by default
> to find then user's keys etc.  For me, HOME is
> /cygdrive/d/home/luke, but ssh *always* complains about being unable to
> create the directory /home/luke.
> 
> This strongly suggests that ssh is *not* doing a getenv(HOME).

You're right.  In contrast to the man pages, ssh does't use
$HOME but the home directory given in your /etc/passwd entry.

Corinna

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