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Randy j. Keener
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-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Flip Kromer [mailto:flip@mrflip.com]
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 3:53 AM
To: ssh-l@erdelynet.com
Subject: [ssh-l] SSHD "Could not chdir to home: No such file or directory"
Fix

Hello,

I installed sshd and cygwin a while ago and make a sneaky, persistent
mistake that I thought I would warn others about...

ssh to my windows machine gave the error
    $ ssh me@localhost
    Could not chdir to home directory /h/me: No such file or directory

sshd would still log me in, and would still set me in my home directory
(which does exist). The only problem (besides just annoyance) was that it
would not find my ~/.ssh to do RSA authentication with.

Turns out, when I setup cygwin I ran
    $ mount -b -c / # This is bad! Sets / for this user only.
to make local drives appear at /c, /d, etc. However, without the -s flag
this is a per-user setting. sshd runs under the SYSTEM account, and sees the
system default setting of /cygdrive/c, /cygdrive/d, etc.

I should have instead run
    $ mount -b -s -c / # This is good! Sets / for all users.
Thanks to Corinna Vinschen at Cygwin for figuring out my mistake.

To fix this, I quit all cygwin programs. Then, in regedit, I removed, under
    HKU\S-1-5-21-*-*-*-*\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2\ the
keys "cygdrive flags" and "cygdrive prefix". Finally, I ran
    $ mount -b -s -c /
and now everyone is happy :-)

Cheers,
flip

PS Some other people have reported this error, so perhaps it should be added
to the FAQ at http://tech.erdelynet.com/cygwin-sshd.asp ?

  [See
    http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1999-09/msg00276.html
    http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-09/msg00032.html
    http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-10/msg00758.html
    http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-11/msg01274.html
  ]

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