[PATCH]: contrib/cygwin/README

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

Thanks.. Applied.

- Ben


On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a small patch here which changes the Cygwin README file so
> that the following fact is mentioned.
> 
> OpenSSH never uses $HOME to search for user config files but the
> value in the pw_dir field in /etc/passwd.
> 
> This might be of minor interest for generic U*X folks but that's
> an important fact for Cygwin users. When /etc/passwd is automatically
> created under WinNT/2K it uses the values in the NT user datebase
> to determine the home directory of the user. Actually, it's an
> completely unimportant entry for NT itself. If the home directory
> isn't set NT uses a default value. Unfortunately this often results
> in a wrong pw_dir entry in /etc/passwd. So at least the documentation
> should make that fact somewhat clear to the user.
> 
> I wonder if it is worth to mention this somehow in the man pages.
> While in most cases $HOME reflects the pw_dir field, a user could
> set it's $HOME to /tmp and then he is surprised that his config
> files in /tmp aren't used. Ok, it might be a theoretical case but
> you'll never know.
> 
> Index: README
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/openssh_cvs/contrib/cygwin/README,v
> retrieving revision 1.3
> diff -u -p -r1.3 README
> --- README	2001/03/07 10:38:19	1.3
> +++ README	2001/03/14 20:52:59
> @@ -111,6 +111,12 @@ You'll have to decide before starting ss
>       
>      RSAAuthentication yes
>  
> +Please note that OpenSSH does never use the value of $HOME to
> +search for the users configuration files! It always uses the
> +value of the pw_dir field in /etc/passwd as the home directory.
> +If no home diretory is set in /etc/passwd, the root directory
> +is used instead!
> +
>  You may use all features of the CYGWIN=ntsec setting the same
>  way as they are used by the `login' port on sources.redhat.com:
>  
> @@ -129,10 +135,10 @@ way as they are used by the `login' port
>  
>      locuser::1104:513:John Doe,U-user,S-1-5-21-...
>  
> -V2 server and user keys are generated by `ssh-config'. If you want to
> -create DSA keys by yourself, call ssh-keygen with `-d' option.
> +SSH2 server and user keys are generated by the `ssh-*-config' scripts
> +as well.
>  
> -DSA authentication similar to RSA:
> +SSH2 authentication similar to SSH1:
>      Add keys to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2
>  Interop. w/ ssh.com dsa-keys:
>      ssh-keygen -f /key/from/ssh.com -X >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Corinna
> 
>