Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040721214043.03387760@pop.prospeed.net> X-Sender: Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:42:07 -0400 To: "Harig, Mark" , "gurkan" , From: Larry Hall Subject: RE: cron and ssh with homeshare variable In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 05:43 PM 7/21/2004, you wrote: >> >> My problem is that the system try to create a directory >> '//ALISANDRE/homes/.ssh'. and '//ALISANDRE/homes/ this is >> the value for >> HOMESHARE , the system chearch to write in know_hosts file , >> so i want >> change this value by /home/gurkan definitively (even if a >> reboot ) but i >> can't find it . >> > >This is defined in Cygwin's /etc/passwd file. You will >want to generate a password file with some variation of the >'mkpasswd' command: > > $ /usr/bin/mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd > >or > > $ /usr/bin/mkpasswd -d -u gurkan >> /etc/passwd > >and then edit /etc/passwd, and change the second-to-last >field so that it contains the HOME directory that you want. Or just use the '-p' flag and specify the home path you want as a parameter. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/