[Bug 1527162] Re: ssh-keygen ignores $HOME

[David Jones]

Where is upstream? And how might I find that out for myself?

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Title:
  ssh-keygen ignores $HOME

Status in openssh package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  The manual for ssh-keygen claims that by default it will create a key
  in ~/.ssh/id_rsa

  The convention used in /bin/sh (and other shells) is that
  ~/.ssh/id_rsa is basically "$HOME/.ssh/id_rsa". So changing $HOME
  should change where ssh-keygen writes its key.

  But it does not. ssh-keygen seems to use the directory extracted from
  /etc/passwd. In this terminal session, I change the value of $HOME to
  illustrate this:

  $ HOME=/tmp sh
  $ cd ~
  $ pwd
  /tmp
  $ ssh-keygen
  Generating public/private rsa key pair.
  Enter file in which to save the key (/home/drj/.ssh/id_rsa): ^C

  Versions etc:

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 15.04
  Release:	15.04

  $ apt-cache policy openssh-client
  openssh-client:
    Installed: 1:6.7p1-5ubuntu1.3
    Candidate: 1:6.7p1-5ubuntu1.3
    Version table:
   *** 1:6.7p1-5ubuntu1.3 0
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid-updates/main amd64 Packages
          500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid-security/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:6.7p1-5ubuntu1 0
          500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages

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