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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:49:06 -0500
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Subject: Re: ssh login reports "Could not chdir to home directory /home/root: Bad address"
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On 2/27/2014 2:07 PM, Ernesto Puig Rodriguez wrote:
> When I log in into my Windows Server 2008 R2 using ssh, I get the following
> error:
>
> $ ssh root@winsrv2008
> root@winsrv2008's password: ********
> Could not chdir to home directory /home/root: Bad address
>
> This is independent on whether I log in with the root user who is mapped to
> the Administrator in the /etc/passwd or not using another user of the group
> Administrators. The sshd daemon is able to log me in and everything seems
> fine, but this error is telling me something is wrong in my machine which I
> was not able to find till now. I have also re-installed cygwin and upgraded
> ssh with the level OpenSSH_6.5p1-1 without success.

What does 'pwd' say after you login?  Does '/home/root' exist?  If so, what 
are the permissions it shows (for each of ls -l, getfacl, cacls)?

Looking at the output of ssh -v -v -v may help.  Setting up a sshd service
to run debug and looking at that output will probably be more help.

-- 
Larry

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