On Jun 28 09:38, 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'. OpenSSH never honors $HOME. It checks explicitely for your home dir setting in the user DB. See https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html for various methods setting your home dir. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/attachments/20160628/23222cda/attachment.sig>