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Re: sshd/passwd
- From: ejfried at ca dot sandia dot gov (friedman_hill ernest j)
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 07:52:51 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: sshd/passwd
I think Erik Moreau wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'll do my best to be as clear as possible with my setup.
>
> I have installed Cygwin on my Win2k machine successfully. My goal is to
> setup sshd so that I may connect to work from home in a secure fashion. I
> have installed sshd and ran ssh-host-config with no problem. I try to run
> ssh-user-config but I get the following message:
> emoreau@CICHLID ~
> $ ssh-user-config
> /home/emoreau
> /home/emoreau is set in /etc/passwd as your home directory
> but it is not a valid directory. Cannot create user identity files.
>
Ummm. Did you check that /home/emoreau exists? If not, create it. If
it already does, check that you have write permission to it.
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Ernest Friedman-Hill
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