Lonny, True, but most of the documentation tells you to define superusers as having a home directory of "/". In the early days, some things would break if you did not. I haven't checked lately, so I don't know if that's changed at all.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Sivey,Lonny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 10:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ssh success and yet another question Mark, There are many things to complain about with Unix System Services, but that's not one of them. Each user can have a different home directory regardless of whether or not they run as UID(0). The home directory is set in the user's OMVS segment. This is assuming you are using Security Server (RACF). I'm not sure how 3rd party security products implement this. The $HOME variable will be automatically set to the value in the user's OMVS segment. Lonny -----Original Message----- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ssh success and yet another question Unfortunately, "/" is the home directory for root users on Unix System Services. Yet another example of IBM getting it wrong in that environment. :( Still, I just did a test on a z/OS 1.2 system: mkdir //.ssh/ worked by creating /.ssh as I expected it to. Paul, are you running with a read-only root HFS? If so, then you'll have to set the HOME environment variable. If not, simply creating the .ssh directory should work. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Tzafrir Cohen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ssh success and yet another question On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, paultz wrote: > > Now everything is talking, and the only annoyance is this: > When I answer "Yes" to the question of "Are you sure you want to > continue connecting (yes/no)?", I get: > "Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (//.ssh/known_hosts)." HOME seems to be set to '/' Are you doing this as root or as a normal user? Either way, set HOME to the correct value. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
