SSH Home Directory

SSH Home Directory

[Chris Sutcliffe]

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

[Mark Hansen]

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

[Chris Sutcliffe]

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

[Corinna Vinschen]

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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

[Chris Sutcliffe]

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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