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AW: ssh search identity in wrong directory


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Corinna Vinschen
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. September 2004 15:01
> An: cygwin@cygwin.com
> On Sep  7 13:31, cygwin.20.job@spamgourmet.com wrote:
> > Hi folks
> > 
> > I have the problem that ssh does not search the identity file ins 
> > $HOME/.ssh it looks in the directory which is found in the 
> envionment 
> > variable HOMESHARE. What is going wrong? How can I fix it?
> 
> Nope, it looks in the directory found in your /etc/passwd 
> entry.  ssh never uses $HOME.
> 
Thank you very much this was exacty the problem. I didn't expect that I must look in the /etc/passwd, because the manpage says that it use a file in $HOME/.ssh as default.

Regards

 Franz 



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