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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: SSH Home Directory
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 14:12:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160628140615.GF23625@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGHJv4dRtUm=gz=oMgttxR9+QYM_rm_NEbQFnyY30x=GL+VwDw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Jun 28 09:38, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have my $HOME path setup as /cygdrive/c/Users (using Windows 7)
> however ssh doesn't seem to honour that.  When I fire up ssh, I get:
> 
> Could not create directory '/home/csutclif/.ssh'.

OpenSSH never honors $HOME.  It checks explicitely for your home dir
setting in the user DB.  See https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html
for various methods setting your home dir.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-28 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-28 13:58 Chris Sutcliffe
2016-06-28 14:06 ` Mark Hansen
2016-06-28 18:06   ` Chris Sutcliffe
2016-06-28 14:12 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2016-06-28 18:34   ` Chris Sutcliffe

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