SSH SFTP settings offers to set "Starting location" but config is never applied.

Hello,

Thank you for your request, we'll definitely open a ticket to add a new setting to specify the local starting path. We'll also see about moving this section to a separate tab to make it stand out a bit more.

For reference, the three settings you mention all relate to the remote view, not the local one. You can find more information about what they do here: https://docs.devolutions.net/rdm/kb/knowledge-base/ssh-session-entry/#advanced

Regards

Hello,

A local starting path setting will be included in version 2025.3.3.0. All SFTP settings will also be moved to their own tab.

Regards

Thank you!

I can confirm, that SFTP has now its own tab. Still the setting for Home directory and Starting location behaves illogical:

Home directory in Linux usually points to the directory set by the variable $HOME. For normal users this is usually /home/<username> and for the user root this is /root.
Since remote desktop manager does not recognice that variable I can not use the $USERNAME$ variable to make the home directory work for root and normal users.
For normal users I could use /home/$USERNAME$ but this will not work for root since for root it should be /$USERNAME$.

Please just recognize the Linux variable $HOME and set the home directory automatically!

Also what is still strange is, that Starting location can only be a subfolder of Home directory.

I would recommend to set the Home directory automatically based on the Linux $HOME variable and remove the setting entirely and let the Starting location be set to any directory I want.

Hello,

The 2026.2 release will come with improvements to how we handle the home directory, which will allow the starting location (or any further navigations) to go outside of this directory.

The $HOME variable should also be used, as long as the 'Home directory' setting is left empty in RDM. This is the case for the most recent 2026.1 version, please correct me if I'm wrong.

Regards