X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:18:54 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Passwordless sftp with ssh 5.9 still asks for password Message-ID: <20111130091854.GA11195@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <9E9DD545D034B84B935BB50A739B078B0551DD6893@sha-exch12.shared.ifeltd.com> <4ED56819.6050707@etr-usa.com> <923130286.20111130123814@mtu-net.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <923130286.20111130123814@mtu-net.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Nov 30 12:38, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Warren Young! > > >> Accept the default > >> key location, C:\Documents and Settings\nhuser\.ssh\id_dsa, > > > Why would that be the default location, if you are using Cygwin tools? > > Shouldn't it be something like c:\cygwin\home\nhuser\.ssh\...? > > Why? > > > You can change your HOME to anything you like, but that's not the default > > with Cygwin. > > Are you sure? > Last time I checked, $HOME in newly installed Cygwin point to the $USERPROFILE > Which is, quite, logical. Just to be clear, that's not done by the Cygwin DLL. When setting HOME, the order is very simple: - If $HOME is already set in the environment, leave it alone. - Otherwise, grab home dir from /etc/passwd. - If /etc/passwd doesn't exist or if the homedir field is empty, set HOME to /home/$USER. If $HOME points to $USERPROFILE, it's because that value is set in /etc/passwd. mkpasswd, for instance, reads the homedir path from the local SAM or AD and uses it, unless the -p option is used. Otherwise, if -p isn't used and the SAM/AD homedir is empty, the fallback is /home/$USER again. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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