On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 02:37:39PM -0500, J J wrote: >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
There is no way that Cygwin ssh-keygen would display a MS-DOS path. It's pretty obvious that you're running the "another ssh client" version. cgf -- 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
