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
