From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4335 invoked by alias); 11 May 2011 14:46:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 4318 invoked by uid 22791); 11 May 2011 14:46:04 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nm22.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (HELO nm22.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com) (98.139.52.219) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with SMTP; Wed, 11 May 2011 14:45:48 +0000 Received: from [98.139.52.196] by nm22.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 11 May 2011 14:45:47 -0000 Received: from [74.6.228.39] by tm9.bullet.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 11 May 2011 14:45:47 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp108.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 11 May 2011 14:45:47 -0000 Received: from [192.168.1.231] (reply-to-list-only-lh@108.7.36.4 with plain) by smtp108.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 May 2011 07:45:46 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: Uu383n6swBCEN1G9up0WSnxbvN8fCPmk Message-ID: <4DCAA119.9040909@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 14:46:00 -0000 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.10 ThunderBrowse/3.3.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ssh - Could not create directory 'c/.ssh'. References: <4DCA6895.6010702@ls83.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4DCA6895.6010702@ls83.eclipse.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-05/txt/msg00158.txt.bz2 On 5/11/2011 6:44 AM, Tim Allen wrote: > Hi > > I have happily used Cygwin ssh from "DOS" command prompt for many years but > on upgrading to V1.7 get this error message. Further info: > > OS: Vista > > /etc/passwd line: > tda:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1000:513:U-laptop1\tda,S-1-5-21-2414507100-3802266639-3593817948-1000:/home/tda:/bin/bash > > > The interesting thing is that if I open up a second command prompt and run an > arbitrary cygwin command (like "less filename"). ssh successfully finds > /home/tda/.ssh (but only for so long as that second command is running). > > I suspect this is something to do with the changes to mounts, but so far I've > been unable to find a fix. I think we need more information about what you're actually doing and what your configuration is. Please review the problem reporting guidelines found here: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple