ssh

Michael Grant mg-fbsd3 at grant.org
Wed Oct 31 06:48:01 PDT 2007


On 10/31/07, James <oscartheduck at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 10/31/07, Michael Grant <mg-fbsd3 at grant.org> wrote:
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> > If I'm sued as root and I ssh somewhere, ssh/scp reads it's files from
> > /root/.ssh/.  The docs say it reads from ~/.ssh which is what I want,
> > but it's not doing that.  When sued, the shell is properly expanding ~
> > to my home dir.
> >
> > Anyone know of a way around this behavior?
> >
> > Michael Grant
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> su - root

Nope.  One other suggestion was 'su -l root'.  This does not change
the situation either.

I went into the source for ssh and it does a getuid() and then gets
the homedir of that uid.  So no amount of fooling with su is gonig to
fix this.  I guess it's like this for security reasons, it sure seems
like a bug to me.  I'd have used the HOME enviroment variable.

So far, the best fix I've found is to create some aliases in bash as follows:

alias scp="scp -o User=username -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa"
alias ssh="ssh -l username -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa"
alias rsync="rsync -op -e 'ssh -l username -i /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa'"


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