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Am 05.05.2012 07:23, schrieb Fedin Pavel:
> On 05.05.2012 7:06, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>> I'm at a loss as to why it's looking in the root directory.
>
>  Look at your /etc/passwd. Here, on my machine,home directory is empty 
> for my username. Perhaps mkpasswd's bug. You can fix it by manually 
> setting the right path in /etc/passwd.
>
It's a bug in openssh (I think) that it does not use $HOME but retrieves 
the used home directory via getpwuid() which looks into /etc/passwd.
I reported this upstream a while ago but since on Linux systems fewer 
people have a $HOME setting different from /etc/passwd they don't seem 
to care. Also I got the hint that it uses getpwuid in some situations 
and $HOME in others which can be seen in the code but yet remains obscure.
Maybe a cygwin-specific patch could fix it.
Thomas

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