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Date:	Thu, 4 Dec 2008 08:48:22 -0800 (PST)
From:	TheO <idgajelas AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Finally managed to create a jailed SFTP server, but how secure?
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> > I understand why all these virtual directories are necessary at the absolute
> > '/' root level. But here I refer to /cygdrive which is created inside the jail
> > directory, which means in absolute path, /jail/cygdrive (/jail being the root 
> of my jail). Inside the jail, only /cygdrive is created, no other virtual 
> directories (/proc or /dev/xxx) or files are created.
> 
> Created or not, they exist.  Try it.
> 

I tried it from jailed SFTP session:

  sftp> cd /dev
  Couldn't canonicalise: No such file or directory
  sftp> cd /proc
  Couldn't canonicalise: No such file or directory

They don't exist.


      

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