$HOME and ssh?

[luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au]

All the documentation for ssh says that it uses $HOME/.ssh by default
to find then user's keys etc.  For me, HOME is
/cygdrive/d/home/luke, but ssh *always* complains about being unable to
create the directory /home/luke.

This strongly suggests that ssh is *not* doing a getenv(HOME).

Anyway, it turns out that there was no /home directory under
/cygdrive/d, so I created one, then did a:

	mount d:\\home /home

and things behaved more sensibly.

I don't understand why there was no /home.  Probably related to the
fact that there have been several older Cygwin installs.

luke


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