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From:	ejfried AT ca DOT sandia DOT gov (friedman_hill ernest j)
Message-Id:	<200301081552.HAA02031@ca.sandia.gov>
Subject:	Re: sshd/passwd
In-Reply-To:	<5.2.0.9.0.20030108101508.00ae1ce8@staff.mcgill.ca> from Erik Moreau
	at "Jan 8, 2003 10:25:57 am"
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date:	Wed, 8 Jan 2003 07:52:51 -0800 (PST)
MIME-Version:	1.0

I think Erik Moreau wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'll do my best to be as clear as possible with my setup.
> 
> I have installed Cygwin on my Win2k machine successfully. My goal is to 
> setup sshd so that I may connect to work from home in a secure fashion. I 
> have installed sshd and ran ssh-host-config with no problem. I try to run 
> ssh-user-config but I get the following message:
> 	emoreau AT CICHLID ~
> $ ssh-user-config
> /home/emoreau
> /home/emoreau is set in /etc/passwd as your home directory
> but it is not a valid directory. Cannot create user identity files.
> 

Ummm. Did you check that /home/emoreau exists? If not, create it. If
it already does, check that you have write permission to it.


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