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Re: Problem with ssh-keygen.exe.


On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 10:43:41PM -0600, Chris Abbey wrote:
>hey mo,
>   check your field in /etc/passwd for proper alignment, on my box
>it's taking the sixth field verbatim and tacking on /.ssh/indentity
>
>~$ grep cabbey /etc/passwd
>cabbey::500:513:,ntsid::/bin/sh
>
>so just running ssh-keygen produces the files in /.ssh/
>
>maybe you've got an extra : or something that's confusing it?
>
>speaking of confusing, can anyone explain this neat trick of .ssh:
>
>~ $ cd /
>/ $ ls -lad .ssh
>ls: .ssh: No such file or directory
>/ $ cd .ssh
>/.ssh $ ls
>identity      identity.pub  known_hosts
>/.ssh $ cd /cygdrive/d/cygwin/
>/cygdrive/d/cygwin $ ls -lad .ssh
>drwxr-xr-x   2 cabbey   None            0 Dec  1 22:29 .ssh
>/cygdrive/d/cygwin $ cd /
>/ $ ls -lad .ssh
>ls: .ssh: No such file or directory
>/ $ mount | grep cygwin
>D:\cygwin\bin       /usr/bin            system       binmode
>D:\cygwin\lib       /usr/lib            system       binmode
>D:\cygwin           /                   system       binmode
>/ $
>
>bizare, according to explorer D:\cygwin\.ssh\ is a normal directory,
>with no attributed.

Sounds like you're running Cygwin 1.1.5.

cgf

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