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Re: howto change home path in /etc/passwd
Surlignage Sylvain.Ferriol@imag.fr:
> Surlignage Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>:
>
> > On Mon, 12 May 2003 Sylvain.Ferriol@imag.fr wrote:
> >
> > > Surlignage Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, 12 May 2003, sferriol wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > hello
> > > > > is there a command to change the home directory of a user in
> > /etc/passwd
> > > > > because ssh sees this file before $HOME and i have always a error.
> > > >
> > > > Use an editor to edit /etc/passwd (as has been suggested). Mind the
> > line
> > > > endings (I think).
> > >
> > > no my question is to do this automatically
> > > because when the admin has installed cygwin on a computer, it adds users
> > > and each users has to define the variable HOME,
> > > but if they use ssh, they have to chang /etc/passwd too.
> > >
> > > i want to create a install file which update automatically /etc/passwd,
> > puts defaults files (bashrc, inputrc,...)
> > > i see that there is the mkpasswd command but it doesn't do what i want
> > >
> > > do you know when /etc/passwd is created???
> > >
> > > sylvain
> >
> > /etc/passwd is normally created (along with /etc/group) when setup runs
> > the passwd-grp.sh postinstall script. The program that actually creates
> > the passwd entries is called mkpasswd, and it sets the home directory to
> > /home/<username> by default.
> >
> > One thing you can do is create symbolic links (or, better yet, user
> > mounts) from /home/<username> to that user's $HOME. That way, you will
> > not have to change /etc/passwd at all.
>
> OK but do you know how to get the username because in the cygwin terminal
> echo $USER or echo $USERNAME works
> but i 'm using a file install.bat which calls 'bash.exe instal.sh'
> and in install.sh:
>
> echo $USER....nothing
> echo $USERNAME....nothing
>
> any suggestions???
SORRY IT's a mistake
but anyway , WHY SSH HAS TO READ /etc/passwd before reading options or $HOME/.ssh/config?????
sylvain
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