SSH Problem

[Mumit Khan]

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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