X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,BOTNET,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-id: <4EA744E7.5030701@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:23:19 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: home path for cygwin 1.7.9 is acting funny References: In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 10/25/2011 11:13 AM, Matthew Smith wrote: > I installed to "c:\personal\cygwin" on my windows xp machine. > > If I open a command prompt and type "echo %HOME%", I get "C:\Documents > and Settings\Matt" > > If I then start an ssh connection from DOS (not the Cygwin program), I > get an error at the beginning of the connection initiation that states > "Could not create directory 'C/.ssh'." > > This means that I can never save the certificate of the server I > always ssh to so I always have to manually accept the connection. > > Here's the really odd thing: If I start cygwin in another window and > then come back to my regular dos screen and run the ssh connection > again, I don't get this error. If I re-examine the %HOME% path in the > DOS window while cygwin is running, it still looks the same. > > I have searched exhaustively on this topic and the one solution that > keeps coming up is to make sure your /etc/passwd file inside of cygwin > points to the home path. Mine seems to because my entry ends with: > ":/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/matt:/bin/bash" Mount your path above as /home/matt, update your '/etc/passwd' file, and try again. Spaces in paths are likely causing you to trip and fall. -- Larry _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple