Greetings, Boylan, Ross! > I recently installed cygwin on Win 10, both 64 bit. > When I run ssh in a cygwin shell it complains > Could not create directory '/home/rdboylan/.ssh'. > The /home directory is empty--that is, it has no rdboylan subdirectory. > My home directory appears to be /cygdrive/c/Users/rdboylan; that is the > value of $HOME
This is the answer. You rely on your shell being smart enough to pick environment variable as operational directive, but SSH knows nothing about it and fails. > and where I end up when I do cd. > As far as I can tell from the docs, having c:/Users/rdboylan as home is > fine, but ssh doesn't seem to be respecting it. > /etc/nsswitch.conf has no uncommented lines and /etc/passwd does not exist Which explains the failure. > (both being ways to define the home directory on cygwin according to the > internet). > In a Windows Command Prompt %HOME% is C:\Users\rdboylan > What's the most appropriate way to fix this problem? Configure Cygwin's NSS to your heart's content. Speaking of which, if you move $HOME outside Cygwin root, I would strongly suggest spending some time in fstab, setting up cygdrive to noacl mode. F.e. none /cygdrive cygdrive noacl,binary,nouser,posix=0 0 0 -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Tuesday, February 19, 2019 23:04:19 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
