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ssh and ssh-keygen default directories #115

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WscriChy opened this issue Nov 2, 2014 · 1 comment

WscriChy commented Nov 2, 2014

When I create a key with ssh-keygen a new key is writren to C:\Users.ssh.

But when I use ssh I always get an error

Could not create directory '/home/<UserName>/.ssh'.

Seems like it tries to access /home/<UserName/.ssh path.

How to deal with this confusing behavior?

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elieux commented Apr 4, 2015

Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and insert windows between db_home: and cygwin. References:
https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch
https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.setup.home

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