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Subject: Re: Problems with ssh when I log into my PC using my corporate domain
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 08:25:39 -0700
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On 4/23/2020 5:51 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
> Am 23.04.2020 um 13:54 schrieb Mark Hansen:
>> On 4/21/2020 2:52 PM, Mark Hansen wrote:
>>> On 4/21/2020 8:33 AM, Mark Hansen wrote:
>>>> I have a Windows 10 laptop, on which I installed Cygwin. I always log 
>>>> into the machine using
>>>> my corporate domain account. When I log into the machine from my 
>>>> office, everything Cygwin
>>>> works fine.
>>>>
>>>> When I log into my laptop from home (which I'm working from home for 
>>>> a while now, due to
>>>> COVID-19), I still log in using my corporate domain account, but 
>>>> Cygwin acts differently.
>>>>
>>>> Here is my user id (from the id command) when I log in from the office:
>>>>
>>>> uid=1293438(Mark.Hansen) gid=1049089(Domain Users) ...
>>>>
>>>> Here is the same when I've logged in with the machine at home:
>>>>
>>>> uid=1293438(MAN+User(244862)) gid=1293438
>>>>
>>>> (MAN) is the domain.
>>>>
>>>> The actual problem I'm having is that Cygwin tools like ssh, git, 
>>>> etc. can't find my .ssh
>>>> directory. They are looking in "/" rather than my home directory.
>>>>
>>>> I tried copying my .ssh directory from my home to "/" and although it 
>>>> was created, the
>>>> files have the wrong permissions and I'm unable to change them.
>>>>
>>>> Is there something I can tweak to get Cygwin to understand which user 
>>>> I am so the ssh
>>>> stuff can start working again?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any help.
>>>>
>>>
>>> To answer a question posed by someone to my private e-mail:
>>>
>>> I didn't have the HOME environment variable set at first. When the PC 
>>> is at my office,
>>> Cygwin worked fine. When I took the PC home and logged in there, I had 
>>> severe Cygwin
>>> issues - I wasn't able to open a Cygwin Terminal or an XTerm terminal 
>>> - it seemed it
>>> didn't know where my HOME directory was.
>>>
>>> As a result, I set my HOME directory in the environment settings for 
>>> my user. Once I
>>> did that, I was able to use the Cygwin Terminal and XTerm terminals 
>>> again.
>>>
>>> The only thing that is still not working (as far as I can see) is any 
>>> ssh client which
>>> needs to find the .ssh directory (like ssh or git, etc.).
>>>
>> 
>> Assuming Cygwin doesn't know about my user (when the PC is at home) - is 
>> there something
>> I can run to reset what Cygwin thinks is the user?
>> 
>> Otherwise, I'll try reinstalling Cygwin and see if that helps.
>> 
>> -- 
> 
> check the differences in outputs for
> 
>       "mkpasswd -c" and "id"
> 
> in the two cases.
> 
> 
> 

I have the differences for 'id' in the two cases. However, I currently don't have access to
my office during the 'stay at home' order we're having to honor these days.

I don't understand the difference in the 'id' output, but they are different. I showed
the first little bit of each in my first message. Does this help? Should I attach the
complete output of the two runs here?


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