[Cialug] OK, .. here's a good one!

[Andrew Denner]

>From what I can see ~ in cygwin sends you to the /home/username folder in
your cygwin environment. I just checked on my windows machine and it has
the same problem for the .ssh file

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:47 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> > Trying to setup Cygwin (done before on many machines, but this one
> appears
> > different). For some REALLY WEIRD reason, it keeps looking for the
> keypair
> > in "/.ssh" instead of "~/.ssh"!!
> >
> > Tried reinstalling entirely, but it is coming back the same. Can't find
> > any reference to .ssh in /etc files, .. using the lines in ssh_config
> [for
> > ~/.ssh] does not help either.
> >
> > Anyone ever seen a problem like this?
>
> I don't believe that Windows has a native notion of a home directory,
> even though Active Directory makes it seem like there is one.  So '~'
> is probably a no-op on Cygwin, unless perhaps a "HOME" enviroment
> variable is set or something like that.  Try hardcoding a path in the
> configs and see what happens.
>
> --
> Jeff Ollie
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