When I log into a machine via ssh what file is executed?

For bash is is .bash_profile or .bashrc?

Thanks.

Hi frznchckn,

What you mean by that. When you login via ssh both the files are used. .bashrc located in your home directory takes global definition like umask value (depend on the UID of the user), prompt etc. from /etc/bashrc.

.bash_profile is use to set any user specific environment / variable / path etc.

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Thanks terminator. I didn't know the specifics, but you confirmed what I thought. The problem is actually this then:

I have set up ssh on my Windows 7 machine via cygwin and openssh. When I log into localhost, I get the following:

Could not chdir to home directory : No such file or directory
mkdir: cannot create directory `': No such file or directory
could not be created.
Setting HOME to /tmp.

A few google searches seemed to turn up nothing concrete, so I thought I would solve this by added the following to my .bashrc

export HOME=/home/username

cd $HOME

echo "finished"

And as I type this I realize that didn't help because the shell couldn't find my home dir to begin with. Any other ideas per chance?

Thanks.

Your home directory is specified in /etc/passwd and it looks like as follows:

Where tester is the username 511 is his uid and gid /home/tester is his home directory and /bin/bash is the default shell used by this user. x mentioned in this line denotes that the password for this user is linked to /etc/shadow (in encrypted form for added security)

Make sure that the user with which you are trying to login has got home directory under /home and has got rwx permission on his home directory.

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Oh geez, I knew home was specified in passwd but would've never connected the two here! Thanks, that worked!