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From: Mumit Khan <khan@NanoTech.Wisc.EDU>
To: Paul  Smith <paul.smith@zonnet.nl>
Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: SSH Problem
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:03:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.1000118130202.3658E-100000@hp2.xraylith.wisc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e5e1186a1.186a11e5e1@zonnet.nl>

On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Paul  Smith wrote:

> I've just installed one of the SSH ports for CYGWIN and it tries to 
> make a directory call //.ssh which it is unable to do.
> 
> If you type "mkdir //.ssh", this also fails. I'm guessing this is a 
> problem with the directory conversion algorithm used in CYGWIN.
> 
> Note: I'm using B20.1

Define HOME.

SSH will try to open $HOME/.ssh, and if you don't have HOME defined,
it's somehow becoming //.ssh, which is of course a network path in
windows, and it'll fail unless you have a share named //.ssh (and
even then it'll fail since you can't just create a share like that).

Regards,
Mumit



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  reply	other threads:[~2000-01-18 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-01-18  8:22 Paul  Smith
2000-01-18 11:03 ` Mumit Khan [this message]
2000-01-18 15:20 ` Michael Hirmke
2006-05-11 10:37 ssh problem Cédric Bouttes
2006-05-11 14:12 ` mwoehlke
2006-05-11 14:36 ` Igor Peshansky
2010-05-22 12:01 Andrew DeFaria
2011-02-14 14:27 reşit dönük
2011-02-14 17:21 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2011-02-14 17:40   ` reşit dönük

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