At 09:44 PM 9/12/2005, you wrote: >In control panel I changed my $HOME environment variable tonight to <new home >directory>, fired up cygwin, and typed ssh <user>@<host>. I received this >error: > >Could not create directory '<previous home directory>/.ssh'. > >Could someone please explain?
Sure. It's simple. 'ssh' doesn't use $HOME to figure out your home directory. It uses the directory listed in '/etc/passwd' for the user you're logging in as. If you think about it, it makes sense. Otherwise, there'd be a paradox (i.e. how can 'ssh' know the environment of the user it's logging in as until it's finished logging in but it can't finish until it finds the home directory and it can't find that until it knows the user's environment...) -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
