Re: Relocating ~/.ssh?

["Robert Hajime Lanning" <robert.lanning@xxxxxxxxx>]

You have to modify the /etc/ssh/*config files and restart sshd.

If an ssh client were able to tell the ssh server where to read the config, that
would be a security breach.

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 3:20 AM, Aaron Davies <aaron.davies@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is it possible to change where SSH looks for the .ssh directory? My
> home directory is currently on a file server 10,000 miles (about 300ms
> ping) away from me, and any operation involving the files in it takes
> at least ten times longer than it normally does.
>
> If I read the man pages correctly, I can use IdentityFile and
> UserKnownHostsFile to relocate my keys and and known_hosts, but that
> means ssh still has to read ~/.ssh/config. I could alias ssh to ssh -i
> ... -o UserKnownHostsFile=..., but that will only work for outgoing
> connections--I also want my authorized_keys for incoming connections
> moved.
>
> I do not currently have the ability to modify /etc/ssh/*config (or
> anything else in /etc), but that may change, so solutions not
> requiring root are preferable, but root-only is welcome too if it's
> the only way.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
>
> (I should note that I tried the most obvious solution, symlinking
> .ssh, but it didn't work, presumably for security reasons.)
> --
> Aaron Davies
> aaron.davies@xxxxxxxxx
>



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