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Re: Possible Workaround - SSH/SSHD: could not chdir to home directory:No such file or directory
- From: Philip Flip Kromer <flip at mrflip dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 03:45:37 -0600
- Subject: Re: Possible Workaround - SSH/SSHD: could not chdir to home directory:No such file or directory
- Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin
- Organization: UT-Austin CNLD
- References: <3CAD59F0.6070809@mrflip.com> <20020405112517.K1475@cygbert.vinschen.de>
- Reply-to: flip at mrflip dot com
No, /h is a local FAT32 drive. I also tried creating c:\foouser and
changing (in /etc/passwd) my home directory to /c/foouser , so that I
could check whether it was unhappy about changing drives.
If you have pointers to more information or discussions on this error
please let me know. I have this difficulty on both my home and work
machines (win2K and WinXP).
flip
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Sure has this been discussed. Is /h a remote drive? If so,
> SYSTEM isn't able to access it.
>
> Corinna
>
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 02:01:52AM -0600, Philip Flip Kromer wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I followed the recipe for setting up sshd under cygwin at
>> http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.asp
>>
>>Everything worked swimmingly, except..
>> tick:~$ ssh me@localhost
>> me@localhost's password:
>> Fanfare!!!
>> You are successfully logged in to this server!!!
>> Could not chdir to home directory /h/me: No such file or directory
>>
>>..for the error message about not being able to find the home directory.
>>sshd would still log me in, and would still set me in my home directory
>>(which does exist). The only problem (besides just annoyance) is that
>>it also would not find my ~/.ssh to do RSA authentication with.
>>
>>Some other people have reported this error; see
>> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1999-09/msg00276.html
>> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-09/msg00032.html
>> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-10/msg00758.html
>> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-11/msg01274.html
>>
>>Nobody seems to have posted a fix or reason for the error; but if I run
>>sshd under my account, rather than the SYSTEM account, it finds the home
>>directories and RSA authentication works.
>
>
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