Re: ssh confused about home directory?

[Houder <houder at xs4all dot nl>]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:24:38, Boylan, Ross"  wrote:
> [Answering my own question after better searching]
> Same question asked and answered in the thread starting https://cygwin.com/=
> ml/cygwin/2016-06/msg00400.html.
> The answer is to set db_home in nsswitch.conf.
> 
> Comment: the current behavior strikes me as unfortunate and surprising.

Surprisng?

.. and you have read?

    https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-passwdinfo

where it reads:

So, what settings can we perform with /etc/nsswitch.conf? Let's start with
 an example /etc/nsswitch.conf file set up to all default values:

  # /etc/nsswitch.conf
  passwd: files db
  group:  files db

  db_enum:  cache builtin
  db_home:  /home/%U <=========
  db_shell: /bin/bash
  db_gecos: <empty>

Perhaps you can infer this default from:

    https://cygwin.com/

where it reads: Cygwin - Get this __Linux__ feeling ...

Henri


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