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Re: SSH Home Directory
- From: Mark Hansen <meh at winfirst dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 06:58:09 -0700
- Subject: Re: SSH Home Directory
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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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