SSH Home Directory

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jun 28 09:38, 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'.

OpenSSH never honors $HOME.  It checks explicitely for your home dir
setting in the user DB.  See https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html
for various methods setting your home dir.


Corinna

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