On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:39:42 -0500, Pierre A. Humblet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ GnuPG: 98EA398D <http://www.keyserver.net/> Better Safe Than Sorry -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
