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From: "Ben Wing" <ben AT 666 DOT com>
To: "'Cygwin List'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>,
   "'Michael Sperber'" <sperber AT informatik DOT uni-tuebingen DOT de>
Cc: "'Stephen J. Turnbull'" <stephen AT xemacs DOT org>, <xemacs-review AT xemacs DOT org>
Subject: RE: Ssh ignores $HOME
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:11:39 -0600
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> 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.

Ack, the thinko strikes again ...  Thanks for the correction.


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