Re: newbie has a question

Alexis,

$HOME means your loggin directory (i.e. your home directory). On my
system, it is where your cygwin's home/installation directory is then
add the subdirectory as follows, e.g.:

c:\cygwin\home\alexis (where c:\cygwin is the directory where cygwin was
installed, and home\alexis is where you end up when you log into
Windows).

I don't see a ".ssh" directory under my home directory though (e.g.
c:\cygwin\home\alan\.ssh does not exist in my account). The option/mod
that you're installing may create that directory for you or is looking
for it, so create the ".ssh" subdirectory in your $HOME directory and
see what else it wants. If you open a bash shell, you can do "cd $HOME"
and it will take you to your home directory (you actually start out
there anyway), then do "mkdir .ssh" to create that subdirectory.

Good luck - Alan

LQ Marshall wrote:

> Alexis, There isn't an equivalent to the $HOME/.ssh/ directory in
> windows. Primarily because windows has no native implementation of
> SSH. The $HOME directory is equivalent the the C:\documents and
> settings\<username> directory implemented in WIN2k and up (win98 may
> have incorporated this to a point as well.) The '.' in from of the
> folder name is similar to a hidden file/folder in windows. Once SSH
> is installed the $HOME should probably point to the documents and
> settings\<username> folder and the .ssh folder may be added
> then. Hope this was helpful. LQ ps - In after thought... there is a
> system env variable for the documents and settings folder that may be
> the equivalent of the $HOME. Of course I am drawing a blank as to what
> that variable is <sigh> signs of age. %WINDIR and ... ... nope...
> sorry no grease on the wheels.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Carter, Alexis
> To: ssh@erdelynet.com
> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 3:54 PM
> Subject: newbie has a question
> I am a newbie to the list and to SSH. I'm using the
> OpenSSH for Windows server
> (http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net) with the Plink/Putty
> application to construct a port-forwarded, secured tunnel on
> a network for database communications. Since I really have
> no familiarity with either OpenBSD or Linux systems, could
> someone tell me what the equivalent of the $HOME/.ssh/
> directory is in Windows? All of the manuals for OpenSSH
> refer to this directory, but I'm not sure what the
> equivalent is in Windows.Thanks,
>
> Alexis
>
Received on Thu Mar 31 22:22:02 2005