On Feb 22 13:19, Earnie Boyd wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > > John.E.Gregg wrote: > >> I'm just installed cygwin on a new laptop. I've been using cygwin ssh > >> for years but am stumped by this new install. ~/.ssh/id_rsa file is > >> not checked at login. Instead, /.ssh/id_rsa is checked. > > > > See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg00629.html. > > > > In short, your /etc/passwd doesn't list your home directory, so ~ doesn't > > always expand as expected. The fix is to edit /etc/passwd by hand and > > specify your home directory explicitly there. > > Would simply adding HOME to the environment resolve the issue?
Ssh doesn't use $HOME for security reasons. You have to fix /etc/passwd. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
