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AW: ssh search identity in wrong directory
- From: cygwin dot 20 dot job at spamgourmet dot com
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 10:05:13 +0200
- Subject: 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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