SSH is looking in the wrong place for the public/private key pair on Windows

Question

I\'m trying to configure GIT on my Windows XP machine, but SSH keeps creating and looking for the public/private key pair in non-sensical places, e.g. /.ssh/id_rsa

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Answer 1

I had the same kind of problem when using a machine with domain policy setting the user profile to a network drive (in this case mapped to Z:).

When trying to do anything from Powershell I'd get messages like this. Setting home PATH variable didn't help.

git clone ssh://myusername@mydomain.com:1234/myproject
Cloning into 'myproject'...
Could not create directory '/z/.ssh'.
The authenticity of host '[mydomain.com]:1234 ([1.1.1.1]:1234)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 00:11:22:33:$4:55:66:77:88.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Failed to add the host to the list of known hosts (/z/.ssh/known_hosts).
Permission denied (publickey).

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

When I cloned from git bash it was fine, as /z/.ssh etc is a valid way to point to Z:\.ssh from a shell.