SSH Home Directory

[Mark Hansen]

On 6/28/2016 6:38 AM, 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'.
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>

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



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