$HOME and ssh?

$HOME and ssh?

[luke.kendall]

All the documentation for ssh says that it uses $HOME/.ssh by default
to find then user's keys etc.  For me, HOME is
/cygdrive/d/home/luke, but ssh *always* complains about being unable to
create the directory /home/luke.

This strongly suggests that ssh is *not* doing a getenv(HOME).

Anyway, it turns out that there was no /home directory under
/cygdrive/d, so I created one, then did a:

	mount d:\\home /home

and things behaved more sensibly.

I don't understand why there was no /home.  Probably related to the
fact that there have been several older Cygwin installs.

luke


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Re: $HOME and ssh?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 03:20:50PM +1000, luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote:
> All the documentation for ssh says that it uses $HOME/.ssh by default
> to find then user's keys etc.  For me, HOME is
> /cygdrive/d/home/luke, but ssh *always* complains about being unable to
> create the directory /home/luke.
> 
> This strongly suggests that ssh is *not* doing a getenv(HOME).

You're right.  In contrast to the man pages, ssh does't use
$HOME but the home directory given in your /etc/passwd entry.

Corinna

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