Bug#92162: marked as done (ssh : ambiguity in manual page)
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regarding ssh : ambiguity in manual page
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Package: ssh
Version: 1:2.5.2p2-1
Severity: minor
The "Configuration Files" section of the ssh manual page has several
sentences which say things like, "The default value for IdentityFile
is $HOME/.ssh/identity." This implies that this syntax can be used in
the configuration file (IdentityFile $HOME/.ssh/blah). It cannot; one
must either use ~ or /home/whoever for $HOME; the configuration file
evidently does not inherit the shell environment. A mention of this
would have saved me many hours of debugging.
Rob
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux peon 2.2.16 #1 Sun Jul 16 19:20:28 EDT 2000 i586
Versions of packages ssh depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.3-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libpam-modules 0.72-9 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam0g 0.72-9 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libssl096 0.9.6-0.potato.4 SSL shared libraries
ii libwrap0 7.6-4 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii zlib1g [libz1] 1:1.1.3-5 compression library - runtime
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Source: openssh
Source-Version: 1:4.2p1-1
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 01:39:01AM -0500, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> The "Configuration Files" section of the ssh manual page has several
> sentences which say things like, "The default value for IdentityFile
> is $HOME/.ssh/identity." This implies that this syntax can be used in
> the configuration file (IdentityFile $HOME/.ssh/blah). It cannot; one
> must either use ~ or /home/whoever for $HOME; the configuration file
> evidently does not inherit the shell environment. A mention of this
> would have saved me many hours of debugging.
Thanks. This was apparently fixed a few years ago. See:
http://bzr.debian.org/loggerhead/pkg-ssh/openssh/trunk/revision/2659.8.12
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623
Regards,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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