sshd/passwd

[friedman_hill ernest j]

I think Erik Moreau wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'll do my best to be as clear as possible with my setup.
> 
> I have installed Cygwin on my Win2k machine successfully. My goal is to 
> setup sshd so that I may connect to work from home in a secure fashion. I 
> have installed sshd and ran ssh-host-config with no problem. I try to run 
> ssh-user-config but I get the following message:
> 	emoreau@CICHLID ~
> $ ssh-user-config
> /home/emoreau
> /home/emoreau is set in /etc/passwd as your home directory
> but it is not a valid directory. Cannot create user identity files.
> 

Ummm. Did you check that /home/emoreau exists? If not, create it. If
it already does, check that you have write permission to it.


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