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Re: ssh config

Let's clarify something here.

~ is always the same as $HOME.  If you change $HOME - within bash -
then ~ changes too:

$ HOME=/bogus/directory
$ echo ~
/bogus/directory

HOME starts out set to whatever's in /etc/passwd, but you can change
it.  For that reason, security-conscious programs like ssh ignore
$HOME and go by what's in /etc/passwd (which, on a real Unix system,
an unprivileged user can't change).

So changing $HOME is asking for trouble, basically.


-- 
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>

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