RE: Why isn't ssh reading ~/.ssh/id_rsa?

Jackpot. Thanks a lot. 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.co

Why isn't ssh reading ~/.ssh/id_rsa?

is OpenSSH_5.8p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011. Here are permissions: drwxr-xr-x+ 1 John.E.Gregg Domain Users0 Feb 22 09:08 . drwxrwxrwt+ 1 John.E.Gregg root0 Feb 16 14:27 .. -rw--- 1 John.E.Gregg Domain Users 1008 Feb 22 08:25 .bash_history -rwxr-xr-x 1 John.E.Gregg Domai