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[Robie Basak <1527162@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better.

I understand that shells generally expand ~ to $HOME, but I'm not sure
that automatically means the documentation is wrong, though I can see
how it could have misled you in this case. I'm also not sure that there
is consensus that changing $HOME should automatically change all program
behaviour, since as you point out nss (eg. getent) will still look up
/etc/passwd to find a different home directory. I'd expect that changing
one without changing the other would produce inconsistent results as you
have discovered.

In any case, that is just my opinion. I doubt we'd carry a patch in
Ubuntu to adjust this behaviour, so the best thing for you to do if you
want to make any progress on this is to report it to upstream and see
what they say. If you do, please link to your report here so others can
follow.

I'm marking this bug Won't Fix in Ubuntu because I don't think we should
carry a patch and I don't think it's likely to change any time soon, so
might as well set expectations correctly. But if it changes upstream or
in Debian, then Ubuntu will follow by default.

** Tags added: needs-upstream-report

** Changed in: openssh (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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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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