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Re: OpenSSH using root for the .ssh directory?

From: Fedin Pavel <p dot fedin at samsung dot com>
To: Chris Sutcliffe <ir0nh34d at gmail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 09:23:27 +0400
Subject: Re: OpenSSH using root for the .ssh directory?
References: <CAGHJv4fbZ-vMdB=nsA7m3VriXm165ZsQXN3XVZ-Zh9c2HsvZ0A@mail.gmail.com>

On 05.05.2012 7:06, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:

I'm at a loss as to why it's looking in the root directory.

Look at your /etc/passwd. Here, on my machine,home directory is empty for my username. Perhaps mkpasswd's bug. You can fix it by manually setting the right path in /etc/passwd.

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 Kind regards
 Pavel Fedin
 Expert engineer, Samsung Moscow research center


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