[Bug 3048] ssh reads from the wrong directory in user namespace

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3048

Darren Tucker <dtucker at dtucker.net> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Darren Tucker <dtucker at dtucker.net> ---
It uses the directory returned by the system's getpwnam(3) for the real
userid of the ssh process.  Thus, if you are running it as root then it
always looks in root's home directory.

https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/ssh.c#L545

It's behaved like this for a long time.  I suspect its original intent
was to prevent $HOME games in the case where the ssh binary was setuid,
which was supported (although very infrequently actually used that way)
up until recently.

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