X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Original-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 6D816385DC23 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=mehconsulting.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=goc-cygwin AT m DOT gmane-mx DOT org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Mark Hansen Subject: Re: Problems with ssh when I log into my PC using my corporate domain while working from home Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 08:25:39 -0700 Message-ID: <958405ee-bb3c-042b-fba9-164a75daa87f@mehconsulting.com> References: <4c387fd0-db14-2d8f-3590-54c83e3a60e7 AT mehconsulting DOT com> <5fb8039b-d12c-a382-3055-3fb356fb60cd AT gmail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 In-Reply-To: <5fb8039b-d12c-a382-3055-3fb356fb60cd@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05, COVID_BODY, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Errors-To: cygwin-bounces AT cygwin DOT com Sender: "Cygwin" On 4/23/2020 5:51 AM, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > Am 23.04.2020 um 13:54 schrieb Mark Hansen: >> On 4/21/2020 2:52 PM, Mark Hansen wrote: >>> On 4/21/2020 8:33 AM, Mark Hansen wrote: >>>> I have a Windows 10 laptop, on which I installed Cygwin. I always log >>>> into the machine using >>>> my corporate domain account. When I log into the machine from my >>>> office, everything Cygwin >>>> works fine. >>>> >>>> When I log into my laptop from home (which I'm working from home for >>>> a while now, due to >>>> COVID-19), I still log in using my corporate domain account, but >>>> Cygwin acts differently. >>>> >>>> Here is my user id (from the id command) when I log in from the office: >>>> >>>> uid=1293438(Mark.Hansen) gid=1049089(Domain Users) ... >>>> >>>> Here is the same when I've logged in with the machine at home: >>>> >>>> uid=1293438(MAN+User(244862)) gid=1293438 >>>> >>>> (MAN) is the domain. >>>> >>>> The actual problem I'm having is that Cygwin tools like ssh, git, >>>> etc. can't find my .ssh >>>> directory. They are looking in "/" rather than my home directory. >>>> >>>> I tried copying my .ssh directory from my home to "/" and although it >>>> was created, the >>>> files have the wrong permissions and I'm unable to change them. >>>> >>>> Is there something I can tweak to get Cygwin to understand which user >>>> I am so the ssh >>>> stuff can start working again? >>>> >>>> Thanks for any help. >>>> >>> >>> To answer a question posed by someone to my private e-mail: >>> >>> I didn't have the HOME environment variable set at first. When the PC >>> is at my office, >>> Cygwin worked fine. When I took the PC home and logged in there, I had >>> severe Cygwin >>> issues - I wasn't able to open a Cygwin Terminal or an XTerm terminal >>> - it seemed it >>> didn't know where my HOME directory was. >>> >>> As a result, I set my HOME directory in the environment settings for >>> my user. Once I >>> did that, I was able to use the Cygwin Terminal and XTerm terminals >>> again. >>> >>> The only thing that is still not working (as far as I can see) is any >>> ssh client which >>> needs to find the .ssh directory (like ssh or git, etc.). >>> >> >> Assuming Cygwin doesn't know about my user (when the PC is at home) - is >> there something >> I can run to reset what Cygwin thinks is the user? >> >> Otherwise, I'll try reinstalling Cygwin and see if that helps. >> >> -- > > check the differences in outputs for > > "mkpasswd -c" and "id" > > in the two cases. > > > I have the differences for 'id' in the two cases. However, I currently don't have access to my office during the 'stay at home' order we're having to honor these days. I don't understand the difference in the 'id' output, but they are different. I showed the first little bit of each in my first message. Does this help? Should I attach the complete output of the two runs here? -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple