ssh unable to find my home

Chris January chris@atomice.net
Tue Jul 2 13:31:00 GMT 2002


> Whenever I connect to a ssh server, I got the message:
>
>    Could not create directory '/home/Administrator/.ssh'.
>
> But actually I have a home defined: HOME=H:\
> or in bash: HOME=/cygdrive/h
> and I do have a directory: H:\.ssh
>
> What am I doing wrong?
You probably have defined HOME on your local machine. Since the ssh server
runs on a remote machine, it won't use the same environment variables.

Chris



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