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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:44:52 -0400
From: Poor Yorick <com DOT cygwin DOT cygwin AT pooryorick DOT com>
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Subject: ssh finds previous home directory
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In control panel I changed my $HOME environment variable tonight to <new home directory>, fired up cygwin, and typed ssh <user>@<host>.  I received this error:

Could not create directory '<previous home directory>/.ssh'.

Could someone please explain?

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