* SSH Home Directory
@ 2016-06-28 13:58 Chris Sutcliffe
2016-06-28 14:06 ` Mark Hansen
2016-06-28 14:12 ` Corinna Vinschen
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From: Chris Sutcliffe @ 2016-06-28 13:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: The Cygwin Mailing List
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'.
Why is it defaulting to /home? Is there a way to configure ssh to
point to the $HOME path? I have a .ssh directory with my private key
in /cygdrive/c/Users/csutlif.
Thanks,
Chris
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* Re: SSH Home Directory
2016-06-28 13:58 SSH Home Directory Chris Sutcliffe
@ 2016-06-28 14:06 ` Mark Hansen
2016-06-28 18:06 ` Chris Sutcliffe
2016-06-28 14:12 ` Corinna Vinschen
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From: Mark Hansen @ 2016-06-28 14:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 6/28/2016 6:38 AM, 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'.
>
> Why is it defaulting to /home? Is there a way to configure ssh to
> point to the $HOME path? I have a .ssh directory with my private key
> in /cygdrive/c/Users/csutlif.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
You need to configure your home directory using the db_home setting in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
See the following section in the Cygwin User's Guide:
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-passwdinfo
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* Re: SSH Home Directory
2016-06-28 13:58 SSH Home Directory Chris Sutcliffe
2016-06-28 14:06 ` Mark Hansen
@ 2016-06-28 14:12 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-06-28 18:34 ` Chris Sutcliffe
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From: Corinna Vinschen @ 2016-06-28 14:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
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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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* Re: SSH Home Directory
2016-06-28 14:06 ` Mark Hansen
@ 2016-06-28 18:06 ` Chris Sutcliffe
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From: Chris Sutcliffe @ 2016-06-28 18:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: The Cygwin Mailing List
On 28 June 2016 at 09:58, Mark Hansen wrote:
> On 6/28/2016 6:38 AM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>> 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'.
>>
>> Why is it defaulting to /home? Is there a way to configure ssh to
>> point to the $HOME path? I have a .ssh directory with my private key
>> in /cygdrive/c/Users/csutlif.
>
> You need to configure your home directory using the db_home setting in
> /etc/nsswitch.conf.
> See the following section in the Cygwin User's Guide:
>
> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-passwdinfo
Thank you!
Cheers,
Chris
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* Re: SSH Home Directory
2016-06-28 14:12 ` Corinna Vinschen
@ 2016-06-28 18:34 ` Chris Sutcliffe
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From: Chris Sutcliffe @ 2016-06-28 18:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On 28 June 2016 at 10:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 28 09:38, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>> 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.
Thanks Corinna!
I guess that's what I get being a long time Cygwin user who hasn't
read recent documentation. :)
Cheers,
Chris
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