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Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:34:35 -0500
To: "Ben Wing" <ben AT 666 DOT com>,
   "'Michael Sperber'" <sperber AT informatik DOT uni-tuebingen DOT de>
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Ssh ignores $HOME
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At 10:24 PM 12/28/2004, you wrote:
>I've cc'ed cygwin AT cygwin DOT com because I've apparently identified a problem
>with Cygwin's ssh.
>

<snip>

>The problem is that /home/Ben is the wrong (and nonexistent, until created
>by ssh) directory.  My home directory is /ben.  For some reason, this
>version of ssh is ignoring $HOME (despite its documentation) and arbitrarily
>looking in /home/$USERNAME.  A symlink fixed the problem; but any
>suggestions as to what is going on here?



What in ssh's documentation says that it will *use* $HOME to determine where
your .ssh directory is?  The documentation uses $HOME for notational 
convenience and says that it will *set* HOME in the ssh environment AFAICS.  
Your $HOME directory in a ssh session under Cygwin is determined the same 
way it's determined in a local shell session.  Your home directory is defined 
in /etc/passwd.



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