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 -- Chris Sutcliffe -- 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
