On 6/28/2016 6:38 AM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: > Hi, >> I have my $HOME path setup as /cygdrive/c/Users (using Windows 7) > however ssh doesn't seem to honour that. When I fire up ssh, I get: >> Could not create directory '/home/csutclif/.ssh'. >> Why is it defaulting to /home? Is there a way to configure ssh to > point to the $HOME path? I have a .ssh directory with my private key > in /cygdrive/c/Users/csutlif. >> Thanks, >> Chris > You need to configure your home directory using the db_home setting in /etc/nsswitch.conf. See the following section in the Cygwin User's Guide: https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-passwdinfo -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple