From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13496 invoked by alias); 4 Sep 2003 16:43:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 13487 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2003 16:43:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Sep 2003 16:43:10 -0000 Received: from slinky.cs.nyu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h84Gh2mL016679; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:43:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (pechtcha@localhost) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id h84GgvNb016667; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:43:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 16:43:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Gavin Sinclair cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ssh problem with $HOME In-Reply-To: <819734548.20030904220801@soyabean.com.au> Message-ID: References: <819734548.20030904220801@soyabean.com.au> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00320.txt.bz2 On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Gavin Sinclair wrote: > Hi, > > When attempting a "cvs update" using over the ssh protocol (well, you > know what I mean ;), I get the following error: > > $ cvs up > Could not create directory '/home/Gavin Sinclair/.ssh'. > > > That is surprising, because: > > $ echo $HOME > /home/gavin > > > I have read the manpage, /usr/doc/*, googled, and searched the > archives, but found nothing. The manpage (ssh), in particular, says > that $HOME/.ssh is where the heart is, so I suspect a Cygwin nuance. > Of course cvs is involved here, but I doubt it's having any influence. > > Does anybody know what might be going on? > > Thanks, > Gavin It's likely that the ssh daemon uses a different place to compute your $HOME (usually /etc/passwd). The default /etc/profile will use the Windows environment variable instead, if it's set. Please make sure your /etc/profile contains the correct path to your home directory, and that you don't set your $HOME somewhere where not all apps have access to it (e.g., your Windows environment). If that doesn't help, please (re)read the problem reporting guidelines at before posting. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/