We have several people w/ UID 0 (a practice I'm not sure is good...), all with their own home directories, and have not yet found any problems.
---- Robert P. Nix internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mayo Clinic phone: 507-284-0844 RO-CE-8-857 page: 507-270-1182 200 First St. SW Rochester, MN 55905 ---- "Codito, Ergo Sum" "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." > -----Original Message----- > From: Post, Mark K [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 9:18 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: ssh success and yet another question > > 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
