Create a new known_hosts file for openSSH in windows

Question

So i have OpenSSH in windows 7 at a university and i am basicly having this problem:

When i first use SSH it is trying to create the known_hosts file on my university network drive H:

But this is not what i want. How can i define a knew location for the known_hosts file and get it to generate there?

Solution

Set the environment variable HOME to a directory in which you want the .ssh directory to be stored.

Comments

[Fantastic Mr Fox]

How do i set and check HOME?

[Fantastic Mr Fox]

and are you sure the environment variable is home because %HOME% is not recognised.

[Fantastic Mr Fox]

i cant cd to %HOME% it says that it is not a recognised path.

[Fran]

Does echo %HOME% show you the value of the variable? If so, the variable is set. Get that working, and the rest should work too.