I recently had to reinstall cygwin on my Windows 7 laptop and am now having trouble getting passwordless ssh to work from my laptop to remote hosts. I have another ssh client, Reflections, installed, and Cygwin insists on using that directory for the ssh key. I would like to use a separate .ssh directory but can't figure out how to work around this behavior.
Here's my home directory that the shell opens to. This is also in /etc/passwd of course: /home/jd2013 pwd /home/jd2013 Here's what happens when I try to generate an RSA key file: /home/jd2013 ssh-keygen -t rsa Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter name for key file: jd2013 C:\Users\jd2013\Documents\Attachmate\Reflection\.ssh\jd2013 already exists. Overwrite (y/n)? n I don't know for certain how this was working before I had to reinstall Cygwin (McAfee had a false positive that bash.exe was a virus last month), but I would like to avoid having to set my Cygwin home to the Reflection directory. I tried creating a .ssh subdirectory in $HOME, but that had no effect. For what it's worth, $HOME is owned by "jd2013:Domain Users" and the Reflections directory is owned by "Administrators:Domain Users". -- 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
