SSH Home Directory

[Chris Sutcliffe]

On 28 June 2016 at 09:58, Mark Hansen wrote:
> On 6/28/2016 6:38 AM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>> 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'.
>>
>> Why is it defaulting to /home?  Is there a way to configure ssh to
>> point to the $HOME path?  I have a .ssh directory with my private key
>> in /cygdrive/c/Users/csutlif.
>
> You need to configure your home directory using the db_home setting in
> /etc/nsswitch.conf.
> See the following section in the Cygwin User's Guide:
>
> https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-passwdinfo

Thank you!

Cheers,

Chris

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