No, /h is a local FAT32 drive. I also tried creating c:\foouser and changing (in /etc/passwd) my home directory to /c/foouser , so that I could check whether it was unhappy about changing drives.
If you have pointers to more information or discussions on this error please let me know. I have this difficulty on both my home and work machines (win2K and WinXP). flip Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Sure has this been discussed. Is /h a remote drive? If so, > SYSTEM isn't able to access it. > > Corinna > > On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 02:01:52AM -0600, Philip Flip Kromer wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>I followed the recipe for setting up sshd under cygwin at >> http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.asp >> >>Everything worked swimmingly, except.. >> tick:~$ ssh me@localhost >> me@localhost's password: >> Fanfare!!! >> You are successfully logged in to this server!!! >> Could not chdir to home directory /h/me: No such file or directory >> >>..for the error message about not being able to find the home directory. >>sshd would still log me in, and would still set me in my home directory >>(which does exist). The only problem (besides just annoyance) is that >>it also would not find my ~/.ssh to do RSA authentication with. >> >>Some other people have reported this error; see >> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1999-09/msg00276.html >> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-09/msg00032.html >> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-10/msg00758.html >> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-11/msg01274.html >> >>Nobody seems to have posted a fix or reason for the error; but if I run >>sshd under my account, rather than the SYSTEM account, it finds the home >>directories and RSA authentication works. > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
