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Ben Lindstrom mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org
Thu Sep 23 04:35:22 EST 2004



On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Jacinto, Alex G (GE Energy) wrote:

>
> I'm trying to use sftp and the openssh FAQ suggest that it is not possible
> to do this if the shell initialization produces output for non-interactive
> session and to try ssh yourhost /bin/true in order to test it.
>
> I did the following command and the following message came out of my
> terminal:
>
> shell-init:  could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent
> directories:  No such file or directory
>

Is this coming from the shell you are running properly?  Looks like there
is a problem with the HOME directory.

- Ben




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