SSH Home Directory

[Chris Sutcliffe]

On 28 June 2016 at 10:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 28 09:38, 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'.
>
> 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.

Thanks Corinna!

I guess that's what I get being a long time Cygwin user who hasn't
read recent documentation. :)

Cheers,

Chris

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