I installed to "c:\personal\cygwin" on my windows xp machine. If I open a command prompt and type "echo %HOME%", I get "C:\Documents and Settings\Matt"
If I then start an ssh connection from DOS (not the Cygwin program), I get an error at the beginning of the connection initiation that states "Could not create directory 'C/.ssh'." This means that I can never save the certificate of the server I always ssh to so I always have to manually accept the connection. Here's the really odd thing: If I start cygwin in another window and then come back to my regular dos screen and run the ssh connection again, I don't get this error. If I re-examine the %HOME% path in the DOS window while cygwin is running, it still looks the same. I have searched exhaustively on this topic and the one solution that keeps coming up is to make sure your /etc/passwd file inside of cygwin points to the home path. Mine seems to because my entry ends with: ":/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/matt:/bin/bash" Anyone know why starting cygwin in another window makes the problem go away? I did a diff between the output of the cygcheck command in a DOS window before and after I open cygwin in another window and I get the following: < Current System Time: Tue Oct 25 07:58:47 2011 --- > Current System Time: Tue Oct 25 07:59:30 2011 23,24c23,25 < UID: 0(Matt Smith) GID: 0(root) < 0(root) 544(Administrators) 545(Users) --- > UID: 1003(Matt Smith) GID: 513(None) > 513(None) 0(root) 544(Administrators) > 545(Users) 76c77 < (default) = '\??\c:\personal\cygwin' --- > (default) = '\??\C:\personal\cygwin' 84c85 < System: Key: 93d3f9586243fecd Path: c:\personal\cygwin --- > System: Key: 93d3f9586243fecd Path: C:\personal\cygwin -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
