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

I

Answer 1

ln -s /c/Users/rofrol/.ssh /home/rofrol/ worked for me.

This did not:

$ echo $HOME
/c/Users/rofrol

$ cat ~/nsswitch.conf
db_home: /c/Users/rofrol

$ cat /home/rofrol/nsswitch.conf
db_home: /c/Users/rofrol

$ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
# Begin /etc/nsswitch.conf

passwd: files db
group: files db

db_enum: cache builtin

#db_home: cygwin desc
db_home: /c/Users/rofrol
db_shell: cygwin desc
db_gecos: cygwin desc

# End /etc/nsswitch.conf

Probably because of this:

SSH will require /home/$USER

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/736#issuecomment-215123009