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RE: ssh doesn't like $HOME
- From: Vince Hoffman <Vince dot Hoffman at uk dot circle dot com>
- To: "'sferriol'" <sylvain dot ferriol at imag dot fr>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:07:33 +0100
- Subject: RE: ssh doesn't like $HOME
/etc/password contains info such as your home directory (Although setting
$HOME will override where $HOME is set in /etc/profile,) your shell if you
are logging in remotely (via ssh telnet etc,) it lets cygwin map guids to
usernames and probably lots more i dont know about.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sferriol [mailto:sylvain.ferriol@imag.fr]
> Sent: 30 April 2003 11:52
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: ssh doesn't like $HOME
>
>
> >
> >
> > ssh never uses the $HOME value. It uses the home dir given
> in the user's
> > /etc/passwd entry.
> >
> > Corinna
> >
> what is the use of /etc/passwd in a Win2k environment????
>
> sylvain
>
>
>
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