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Thomas J Magliery PhD wrote:
> Hello, I have just installed the latest Cygwin and OpenSSH on my Windows 
> XP Pro SP2 machine so that I can SSH into my data files from elsewhere.  
> Works great.  However, I would like to block access to my other drives 
> (programs, backups), just in case this gets hacked.  Is that possible?  
> Thank you.  Tom

You would really want to control that through Windows permissions, since
it's the O/S and not Cygwin that ultimately controls access to these
resources.  You don't want users to be able to work-around your security
settings by using a DOS/Windows tool. ;-)  You can, of course, use Cygwin
tools like 'setfacl' to manipulate file and directory permissions if that
suits you.  Otherwise, the GUI and/or 'cacls' will allow you to do similar
manipulations.

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