OpenSSH 4.7: call for testing.

[Darren Tucker]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 01:48:53PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Darren Tucker wrote:
> > > This time, "make tests" succeeded.  However, it created an empty
> > > $HOME/.ssh directory.  I think it's rude for a test suite to create
> > > any non-temporary files or directories.
> >
> > That's a reasonable point, however offhand I can't think of a way to
> > stop it.
> 
> Perhaps HOME=${path_to_temporary_directory} ?

Unfortunately that won't help.  ssh uses pw_dir from getpwnam() to
determine the home directory which is not so easily fooled.

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