Package: openssh-client Version: 1:8.9p1-3 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer,
I tried to run ssh client in a test environment with files (known_hosts, config etc.) from other than my usual /home/kissg/.ssh/ directory. So after reading the docs I just modified the HOME environment variable to /tmp/kissg. However the program henceforward used the original /home/kissg/.ssh/. Checking the source I found that - in contrast to the man page - ssh client does not care with $HOME(*) but always uses home dir retrieved from passwd file. (So I have to give every file in the command line one by one.) *: More precisely strace shows that ssh tried to open "/tmp/kissg/.ssh/config_autotest" once: newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/kissg/.ssh/config_autotest", 0x7ffda93d3cf0, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) That is quite funny because this file name does not occur in the source. Regards Gabor Kiss -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers jammy-updates APT policy: (500, 'jammy-updates'), (500, 'jammy-security'), (500, 'jammy') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.15.74.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages openssh-client depends on: ii adduser 3.118ubuntu5 ii dpkg 1.21.1ubuntu2.1 ii libc6 2.35-0ubuntu3.1 ii libedit2 3.1-20210910-1build1 ii libfido2-1 1.10.0-1 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.19.2-2 ii libselinux1 3.3-1build2 ii libssl3 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.7 ii passwd 1:4.8.1-2ubuntu2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2ubuntu9.2 Versions of packages openssh-client recommends: ii xauth 1:1.1-1build2 Versions of packages openssh-client suggests: pn keychain <none> pn libpam-ssh <none> pn monkeysphere <none> pn ssh-askpass <none> -- no debconf information