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Date:      Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:57:37 -0400
From:      "Andy Harrison" <aharrison@gmail.com>
To:        "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ssh
Message-ID:  <a22ff2940710310557o5ae52dd4o4013abb4186b5733@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <62b856460710310231h3bc517cdl20300179ac6f1a39@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <62b856460710310231h3bc517cdl20300179ac6f1a39@mail.gmail.com>

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On 10/31/07, Michael Grant  wrote:
> 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?

Instead of just 'su' use 'su -' and that should do the trick.

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Andy Harrison
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