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Re: howto change home path in /etc/passwd

Sylvain.Ferriol@imag.fr wrote:

but anyway , WHY SSH HAS TO READ /etc/passwd before reading options or $HOME/.ssh/config?????


In Unix tradition, in order to get the value of $HOME one must obtain it from /etc/passwd. ssh cannot read options in $HOME/.ssh/config until it has resolved what $HOME is. It does so by getting it from /etc/passwd.



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