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: <3D223157.9030804@cip.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de> Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 01:03:51 +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 To: "Harig, Mark A." Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ssh unable to find my home References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Harig, Mark A. wrote: > HOME is defined incorrectly on your ssh client machine. You'll want to: > > 1. Check the file /etc/passwd. The second-to-last field is likely set > to /home/Administrator. This is what ssh is using, if I remember > correctly. > > 2. Set HOME to this value, '/home/Administrator', on your ssh client > machine. Cygwin attempts to do this for you in the file /etc/profile, > which is sourced before your bash shell is started. Don't override the > value that /etc/profile sets for you. It's the sensible value. Thanks for the hint! Now I changed the field in "/etc/passed" from "/home/Administrator" to "/cygdrive/h" and ssh stopped complaining. The reason I cannot set my home to "/home/Administrator" is that I am not the only administrator user using the system. But everyone of us gets his own home drive mapped to "H:\". 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/