Re: setting up SSH

From: Stephen Biggs (xyzzy_at_hotpop.com)
Date: 08/31/03

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    To: Nadia Kunkov <nadiak@parkerglobal.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:42:50 +0300

    On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 21:28, Nadia Kunkov wrote:
    > Hi, I'm new to SSH. I've just installed Cygwin on my Win2000 workstation. My goal is to connect to it from Linux box and copy files from Linux to Win2000. I can connect to my windows box from Linux and browse the directories. But I need to set up and automated file transfer and therefore public and private keys.
    > I think my set up is not complete/correct.
    > When I run ssh localhost on my win2k I see a message:
    > Cannot create directory /cygdrive/h/username: no such file or dir
    > Well it's looking at h drive and I need it to look at c drive. Where do I change that? Also, the authorized_keys file should reside in my home directory, will that be /cygdirve/c/username/.ssh?
    > It also says that user name or group hasn't been setup correctly. What should I do to set it all up?
    > Thanks in advance.
    > N.K.
    >
    >

    I think you would be better off asking this question in the Cygwin
    mailing list. http://www.cygwin.com and look for "Mailing lists".

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