Re: not landing in SFTP home directory

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 23:25 -0700, Alan Gibson wrote:
> hello all. first post, good to be here. gnome, and by extension
> nautilus, are excellent apps.
> 
> now to the problem:
> 
> when i access an SFTP server added via "Connect to Server..." the
> default directory is the root of the server, not my home directory.
> the same operation with `sftp` lands me in my home directory. this
> behavior makes "connect to server" unusable for many users.
> 
> this was filed as a bug, along with another problem, here:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332738. that bug was filed
> against 2.12.X on 2006-02-27 and this is still the behavior in 2.14.1.
> 
> anyone have any idea of the status of this, or if it this behavior is
> going to stay this way?

Its clearly a bug, so hopefully it'll get fixed eventually. The reason
its not fixed is the standard "not enough resources" one.

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