Possible Workaround - SSH/SSHD: could not chdir to home directory: No such file or directory

Fri Apr 5 00:01:00 GMT 2002

Hello,
I followed the recipe for setting up sshd under cygwin at
	http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.asp
Everything worked swimmingly, except..
 tick:~$ ssh me@localhost
 me@localhost's password:
 Fanfare!!!
 You are successfully logged in to this server!!!
 Could not chdir to home directory /h/me: No such file or directory
..for the error message about not being able to find the home directory. 
sshd would still log me in, and would still set me in my home directory 
(which does exist). The only problem (besides just annoyance) is that 
it also would not find my ~/.ssh to do RSA authentication with.
Some other people have reported this error; see
 http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1999-09/msg00276.html
 http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-09/msg00032.html
 http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-10/msg00758.html
 http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-11/msg01274.html
Nobody seems to have posted a fix or reason for the error; but if I run 
sshd under my account, rather than the SYSTEM account, it finds the home 
directories and RSA authentication works.
I ran
 $ cygrunsrv -R sshd
to stop the ssh daemon, then
 $ chmod me:users /var/log/sshd.log
 $ cygrunsrv -I sshd -d "SSHD" -p /usr/sbin/sshd -a "-D" -u Me \
 -e "CYGWIN=binmode ntsec tty"
 $ cygrunsrv -S sshd
to load and start the new sshd. I also made sure I had "Log on as
Service" rights on the local machine.
1) Is it in any way a bad idea to run sshd as a local user?
2) Why was the SYSTEM account not successfully finding my home dir?
 It is mounted on a FAT32 partition, so I don't think it's a
 permissions issue. I also tried various combinations of dirs in
 /etc/passwd.
Well, if you're having this problem see if it helps to do this; and if I 
am doing a Dumb Thing please let me know. My configuration info is below.
Cheers,
flip
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My /etc/passwd, system IDs elided:
 everyone:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0::
 system:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
 admins:*:544:544:,S-1-5-32-544::
 admin:*:500:544:U-HOST\Administrator,S-1-5-21-...-500:/h/me:/bin/bash
 me:*:1003:544:U-HOST\me,S-1-5-21-...-1003:/h/me:/bin/bash
 guest:*:501:513:U-HOST\Guest,S-1-5-21-...-501:/h/guest:/bin/false
my /etc/group
 everyone:S-1-1-0:0:
 system:S-1-5-18:18:
 none:S-1-5-21-...-513:513:
 adminis:S-1-5-32-544:544:
 guests:S-1-5-32-546:546:
 powers:S-1-5-32-547:547:
 users:S-1-5-32-545:545:
 usercyg:S-1-5-21-...-1201:1201:
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Environment variables [Control Panel/System Properties/System variables]:
 SHELL /bin/bash.exe
 HOME /h/me
 CYGWIN binmode ntsec tty
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Output of "cygcheck -s":
Cygwin Win95/NT Configuration Diagnostics
Current System Time: Fri Apr 05 01:43:24 2002
Windows XP Professional Ver 5.1 Build 2600
Path: C:\unix\bin
 C:\unix\sbin
 C:\unix\bin
 C:\unix\usr\local\bin
 C:\unix\usr\X11R6\bin
 c:\apps\utils
 c:\windows
 c:\windows\system32
 c:\windows\system32\wbem
 c:\apps\Applications\Matlab\bin\win32
SysDir: C:\WINDOWS\System32
WinDir: C:\WINDOWS
CYGWIN = `binmode ntsec'
HOME = `h:\me'
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = `\lib:\usr\lib\:\usr\local\lib:\usr\X11R6\lib\'
MAKE_MODE = `unix'
PWD = `/h/me'
USER = `me'
Use `-r' to scan registry
a: fd N/A N/A
c: hd NTFS 4996Mb 84% CP CS UN PA FC Chairface
f: net NTFS 51677Mb 65% CP CS PA me
h: hd FAT32 9654Mb 60% CP UN THRAKKORZOG
m: hd FAT32 23285Mb 90% CP UN MRMENTAL
r: cd N/A N/A
u: net NTFS 51677Mb 65% CP CS PA users
. / user binmode,noumount
C:/unix / system binmode
C:/unix/bin /usr/bin system binmode
C:/unix/lib /usr/lib system binmode
Found: C:\unix\bin\bash.exe
Found: C:\unix\bin\cat.exe
Found: C:\unix\bin\cpp.exe
Found: C:\unix\bin\find.exe
Found: C:\unix\bin\gcc.exe
Found: C:\unix\bin\gdb.exe
Found: C:\unix\bin\ld.exe
Found: C:\unix\bin\ls.exe
Found: C:\unix\bin\make.exe
Found: C:\unix\bin\sh.exe
 56k 2000年12月03日 C:\unix\bin\cygbz21.0.dll
 621k 2002年01月16日 C:\unix\bin\cygcrypto.dll
 45k 2001年04月25日 C:\unix\bin\cygform5.dll
 35k 2002年01月09日 C:\unix\bin\cygform6.dll
 19k 2002年02月20日 C:\unix\bin\cyggdbm.dll
 17k 2001年06月28日 C:\unix\bin\cyghistory4.dll
 20k 2002年01月13日 C:\unix\bin\cyghistory5.dll
 22k 2001年12月13日 C:\unix\bin\cygintl-1.dll
 22k 2002年01月29日 C:\unix\bin\cygintl.dll
 81k 2001年10月20日 C:\unix\bin\cygitcl30.dll
 35k 2001年10月20日 C:\unix\bin\cygitk30.dll
 25k 2002年03月17日 C:\unix\bin\cygltdl-3.dll
 26k 2001年04月25日 C:\unix\bin\cygmenu5.dll
 20k 2002年01月09日 C:\unix\bin\cygmenu6.dll
 156k 2001年04月25日 C:\unix\bin\cygncurses++5.dll
 175k 2002年01月09日 C:\unix\bin\cygncurses++6.dll
 226k 2001年04月25日 C:\unix\bin\cygncurses5.dll
 202k 2002年01月09日 C:\unix\bin\cygncurses6.dll
 15k 2001年04月25日 C:\unix\bin\cygpanel5.dll
 12k 2002年01月09日 C:\unix\bin\cygpanel6.dll
 40k 2001年11月21日 C:\unix\bin\cygpcre.dll
 39k 2001年11月21日 C:\unix\bin\cygpcreposix.dll
 108k 2001年06月28日 C:\unix\bin\cygreadline4.dll
 121k 2002年01月13日 C:\unix\bin\cygreadline5.dll
 66k 2001年11月20日 C:\unix\bin\cygregex.dll
 156k 2002年01月16日 C:\unix\bin\cygssl.dll
 253k 2002年02月10日 C:\unix\bin\cygtiff3.dll
 623k 2001年10月20日 C:\unix\bin\cygtk80.dll
 50k 2002年03月12日 C:\unix\bin\cygz.dll
 751k 2002年02月25日 C:\unix\bin\cygwin1.dll
 Cygwin DLL version info:
 DLL version: 1.3.10
 DLL epoch: 19
 DLL bad signal mask: 19005
 DLL old termios: 5
 DLL malloc env: 28
 API major: 0
 API minor: 51
 Shared data: 3
 DLL identifier: cygwin1
 Mount registry: 2
 Cygnus registry name: Cygnus Solutions
 Cygwin registry name: Cygwin
 Program options name: Program Options
 Cygwin mount registry name: mounts v2
 Cygdrive flags: cygdrive flags
 Cygdrive prefix: cygdrive prefix
 Cygdrive default prefix:
 Build date: Mon Feb 25 11:14:34 EST 2002
 Shared id: cygwin1S3
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version
ash 20020131-1
 ...
bash 2.05a-3
 ...
cygrunsrv 0.95-1
cygutils 1.0.0-1
cygwin 1.3.10-1
 ...
openssh 3.1p1-1
openssl 0.9.6c-2
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