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From: "Prentis Brooks" <prentis AT aol DOT net>
To: "cygwin" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: RE: FW: Can not config sshd
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 09:17:52 -0400
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Found it... ok all, tell me what you all think about this and how to handle
it:

This user needs to have his home directory pointing at /, however, as Jason
pointed out, if I set the user's home dir to /, when apps look at it, they
add a second /, creating // which is interpreted as a network share.  This
breaks everything.  What I did was set the user's home to /c/cygwin (which
is where / is mounted), and the problems went away, I have RSA and shost
authentication working.  Now, I guess my next question would be, is this
prefered behavior or is it being corrected, since this looks like a cygwin
1.1.1 issue?

Thanks for all the help!!!

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
[mailto:cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com]On Behalf Of Prentis Brooks
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 9:08 AM
To: Jason Tishler
Cc: cygwin
Subject: RE: FW: Can not config sshd


I have not defined this user's home dir in the environment, only in
/etc/passwd.... if there is no home dir defined in ENV, does it default to
//?

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Tishler [mailto:Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com]
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 8:57 AM
To: Prentis Brooks
Cc: cygwin
Subject: Re: FW: Can not config sshd


Prentis,

Prentis Brooks wrote:
> What I have found is that since this user has his home dir as / when
openssh
> tries to create the /.ssh directory it does so with the following
notation:
> //.ssh  which fails.

I'm not sure whether or not this is relevant but I found a HOME
directory anomaly in 1.1.1 that did not exist in 1.1.0 and earlier.
This may be related to your problem or may be not...

Given that I mount H: as /home/jt, if I set HOME=H:\ via the control
panel, then within Cygwin (eg, bash) my HOME becomes /home/jt/ (note
the extra slash at the end).  If I now set HOME=H: (note no backslash),
then within Cygwin my HOME becomes /home/jt.

In your case since HOME is /, may be due to the above problem you are
getting an extra slash too.  Hence, your HOME within Cygwin is becoming
//.  The // notation is interpreted by Cygwin as a network share (or a
drive letter).  So for example, when openssh tries to access //.ssh,
it can't find a share called ".ssh" and fails.

Hope the above helps and sorry if it is just a distraction to the real
problem.

Jason

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