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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
Subject: Re: howto change home path in /etc/passwd
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 10:11:28 -0700
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Sylvain DOT Ferriol AT imag DOT 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.



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