ssh doesn't like $HOME

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 05:39:45PM +0200, sferriol wrote:
> hello
> i'm using ssh under windows2000.
> i'm testing little scripts which use ssh.
> 
> to generate ssh keys for testing, i have change my HOME in win$$ to 
> $HOME=test_directory
> 
> but when i use ssh, it use the keys in the old HOME directory, not in 
> the current
> why??
> does it use the HOME variable???

ssh never uses the $HOME value.  It uses the home dir given in the user's
/etc/passwd entry.

Corinna

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