Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3D220F20.1070702@N.O.S.P.A.M.cip.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de> Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 22:37:52 +0200 From: Huijing Zhou Organization: University of Karlsruhe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ssh unable to find my home References: <3D22088B.7080804@N.O.S.P.A.M.cip.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de> <01b301c22206$306a3490$0100a8c0@advent02> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> Whenever I connect to a ssh server, I got the message: >> >> Could not create directory '/home/Administrator/.ssh'. >> >> [...] > > You probably have defined HOME on your local machine. Since the ssh server > runs on a remote machine, it won't use the same environment variables. I got this message from my ssh client (local), not from the ssh server (remote). In fact this message appears before the connection to the server is built up. Huijing -- Huijing Zhou CIP Computer Lab, Faculty of Economics University of Karlsruhe, Germany http://www2.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/