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Re: SSH looking for identity file in /.ssh
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:05:18 +0100
- Subject: Re: SSH looking for identity file in /.ssh
- References: <33365245.post@talk.nabble.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Feb 21 08:53, _w_ wrote:
>
> I just installed Cygwin 1.7.10 and created keys in ~/.ssh. When I ssh to
> another server, it looks for identity files in /.ssh rather than ~/.ssh.
>
> I checked /etc/ssh_config and everything is commented out (as it was in my
> old Cygwin installation). I tried adding "IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa" but
> that didn't help, it kept looking in /.ssh.
That means your home directory is set to / in /etc/passwd.
Corinna
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