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

[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.