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: <3F4486E5.BD97484A@dessent.net> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 01:46:29 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... X-Accept-Language: en,en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ssh does not find the config file? References: <200308210746.h7L7kDF08118@utah.> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bursian Achim wrote: > > >> Using 'ssh utah' does not work, I get prompted for the password for > >> BA3759@utah. But strange enough, 'ssh -F $HOME/.ssh/config utah' does > >> work. $HOME/.ssh/config should be the default for the config file, but > >> obviousely it isn't??? > > > >You shouldn't have to specify IdentityFile in the config, since > >$HOME/.ssh/id_rsa is the default (and the path /home/.ssh you have above > >probably doesn't exist, unless your home directory is really /home/.) > > Actually, it is /home, I mounted it that way because I'm the only user on the system. Hmm, that does sound odd. I would suggest running either 'ssh -vvv' (or whatever it is that enables the max debug spew) or even 'strace ssh' and see what all files it's trying to look for. Is your home directory correct in /etc/passwd? Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/