Problems with ssh when I log into my PC using my corporate domain while working from home

[Marco Atzeri]

Am 23.04.2020 um 13:54 schrieb Mark Hansen:
> On 4/21/2020 2:52 PM, Mark Hansen wrote:
>> On 4/21/2020 8:33 AM, Mark Hansen wrote:
>>> I have a Windows 10 laptop, on which I installed Cygwin. I always log 
>>> into the machine using
>>> my corporate domain account. When I log into the machine from my 
>>> office, everything Cygwin
>>> works fine.
>>>
>>> When I log into my laptop from home (which I'm working from home for 
>>> a while now, due to
>>> COVID-19), I still log in using my corporate domain account, but 
>>> Cygwin acts differently.
>>>
>>> Here is my user id (from the id command) when I log in from the office:
>>>
>>> uid=1293438(Mark.Hansen) gid=1049089(Domain Users) ...
>>>
>>> Here is the same when I've logged in with the machine at home:
>>>
>>> uid=1293438(MAN+User(244862)) gid=1293438
>>>
>>> (MAN) is the domain.
>>>
>>> The actual problem I'm having is that Cygwin tools like ssh, git, 
>>> etc. can't find my .ssh
>>> directory. They are looking in "/" rather than my home directory.
>>>
>>> I tried copying my .ssh directory from my home to "/" and although it 
>>> was created, the
>>> files have the wrong permissions and I'm unable to change them.
>>>
>>> Is there something I can tweak to get Cygwin to understand which user 
>>> I am so the ssh
>>> stuff can start working again?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help.
>>>
>>
>> To answer a question posed by someone to my private e-mail:
>>
>> I didn't have the HOME environment variable set at first. When the PC 
>> is at my office,
>> Cygwin worked fine. When I took the PC home and logged in there, I had 
>> severe Cygwin
>> issues - I wasn't able to open a Cygwin Terminal or an XTerm terminal 
>> - it seemed it
>> didn't know where my HOME directory was.
>>
>> As a result, I set my HOME directory in the environment settings for 
>> my user. Once I
>> did that, I was able to use the Cygwin Terminal and XTerm terminals 
>> again.
>>
>> The only thing that is still not working (as far as I can see) is any 
>> ssh client which
>> needs to find the .ssh directory (like ssh or git, etc.).
>>
> 
> Assuming Cygwin doesn't know about my user (when the PC is at home) - is 
> there something
> I can run to reset what Cygwin thinks is the user?
> 
> Otherwise, I'll try reinstalling Cygwin and see if that helps.
> 
> -- 

check the differences in outputs for

     "mkpasswd -c" and "id"

in the two cases.