Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3048
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 02:54:13PM +0100, Gabor Kiss wrote: > 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. The most current upstream bug for this is probably either https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3048 or https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3470, and those explain the historical reasons why the design is the way it is. I don't think there's anything we can sensibly do in Debian about this, so I'll just mark this as forwarded upstream. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [[email protected]]
