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RE: SSH and Home


You're absolutely right - I've gone through the process of changing to a
name with no spaces but the problem persisted. After reading this I
changed my etc/passwd file so that home was /cygdrive/d/home/kevinj and
I'm golden

Thank you,

Kevin Jones
Developmentor
www.develop.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: 27 January 2003 15:37
> To: Thorsten Kampe
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: SSH and Home
> 
> 
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> 
> > * Kevin Jones (03-01-27 11:54 +0100)
> > > I've just started using the cygwin SSH, mostly to do CVS, 
> and I have a
> > > problem with %HOME%
> >
> > No, you've got a problem with $USER/%USERNAME%.
> >
> > > I'm logged onto a W2K machine as 'Kevin Jones' [...]
> >
> > Don't do that, it's going to bring you nothing but trouble. Change
> > your username so it doesn't contain spaces.
> > Thorsten
> 
> FYI, there was a long discussion on the list some months ago which
> concluded that spaces in usernames are not particularly 
> harmful (as long
> as things are quoted properly in user scripts).  If there is a
> program/script that is affected by a space in a username, it should be
> fixed instead.
> 
> AFAICS, the original poster's problem was that the home directory in
> /etc/passwd was not set correctly.  sshd sets the home directory to
> whatever's specified in /etc/passwd (mostly because it can't 
> see the user
> environment variable %HOME%, running as SYSTEM).  The best 
> way to fix this
> is to edit /etc/passwd and set the home directory for the user "Kevin
> Jones" to "/cygdrive/d/home/kevinj".
> 	Igor
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