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Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:14:24 +0200
Message-Id: <200412291214.iBTCEOB6004636@beta.mvs.co.il>
From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud AT unix DOT mvs DOT co DOT il>
To: pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, " Ben Wing" <ben AT 666 DOT com>,
   " Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen AT xemacs DOT org>
Subject: Re: Ssh ignores $HOME
In-reply-to: <20041229033942.GA624267@hpn5170> (message from Pierre A. Humblet on Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:39:42 -0500)
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On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:39:42 -0500, Pierre A. Humblet <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 08:24:55PM -0700, Ben Wing wrote:
> >
> > The problem is that ..... ssh is ignoring $HOME (despite its documentation)
> > and arbitrarily looking in /home/$USERNAME.  .....
>
> See last sentence in
> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC18

This last sentence needs a correction: If there is no /etc/passwd ssh
will use the supplied$ HOME.

I would replace the faq sentence with: "Note that ssh disregard `HOME'
if /etc/passwd does exist."

I have checked this situation many times, as I make a minimal ssh
distribution (that can be run from a CD/flash) that run on machines
where Cygwin is not installed (and consequently - no mounts and
no /etc/passwd).

Ehud.


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