On 5 May 2012 01:23, Fedin Pavel wrote: > 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.
That fixed it, thanks! On 5 May 2012 04:55, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Indeed, that's a bug in mkpasswd I introduced in December. I don't know > what I was thinking when I made the change, but it results in the > following misbehaviour: > > I fixed that in CVS for now, but I'm wondering if that doesn't qualify > for a new Cygwin release... As per Thomas' response, anything that depends on getpwuid() would be affected and for only new installs (which would explain why I hadn't seen this before). So as to not confuse new users, it may be worth the effort to produce a new release. On 5 May 2012 06:15, Thomas Wolff wrote: > 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. Agreed, it seems odd that ssh is ignoring $HOME. Thank you, Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://emergedesktop.org http://www.google.com/profiles/ir0nh34d -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
