I just installed Cygwin 1.7.10 and created keys in ~/.ssh. When I ssh to another server, it looks for identity files in /.ssh rather than ~/.ssh.
I checked /etc/ssh_config and everything is commented out (as it was in my old Cygwin installation). I tried adding "IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa" but that didn't help, it kept looking in /.ssh. Specifying the location of the identity file on the command line (ssh xxx -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa) works, as does hard coding in /etc/ssh_config the path to my identity file (IdentityFile /home/xxx/.ssh/id_rsa). Any idea why it's looking in /.ssh rather than ~/.ssh? $ ssh -v xxx OpenSSH_5.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8s 4 Jan 2012 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config debug1: Connecting to xxx [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] port 22. debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_rsa type -1 debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_dsa type -1 debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1 . . . debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Trying private key: /.ssh/id_rsa debug1: Trying private key: /.ssh/id_dsa debug1: Trying private key: /.ssh/id_ecdsa Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/SSH-looking-for-identity-file-in--.ssh-tp33365245p33365245.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
