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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:32:11 -0500
To: "Peter Fraser" <pjf AT thinkage DOT ca>, "Cygwin List" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: OpenSSH_3.9p1 and Could not load host key
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At 05:08 PM 3/29/2005, you wrote:
>My problem:
>
>When I opened an ssh session from an OpenBSD or Linux box to
>my XP system I got the following
>
>$ ssh whoops.thoughts.thinkage.ca
>Last login: Mon Mar 28 11:15:25 2005 from mail.thinkage.ca
>Fanfare!!!
>You are successfully logged in to this server!!!
>bash.exe: warning: could not find /tmp, please create!
>-bash: /etc/profile: Permission denied
>-bash: /pjf/.bash_profile: Permission denied
>-bash-2.05b$ exit
>logout
>-bash: /pjf/.bash_logout: Permission denied
>Connection to whoops.thoughts.thinkage.ca closed.
>
>While it was in this mode. Bash could only execute some 
>of its build in commands (i.e. echo and set). Bash could 
>not access the file system at all.
>A "cd" would fail for example. No external commands 
>could be started at all.


Ah, I see.  I thought you were originally having problems getting logged in 
and staying logged in via ssh.  I didn't realize that you typed the "exit"
above.


>The good news, is the changes that you had me make
>in the cygwin environment did fix the problem.
>I can now successful ssh into my windows system
>and execute commands.


DO you know which of my suggested changes helped?  Just curious.

>Thank you very much!

You're welcome.  Glad things are working for you now.



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