X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44F4676B.1090805@cygwin.com> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:12:27 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060727 Fedora/1.5.0.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Control which drives are visible under Cygwin/OpenSSH? References: <44F45E2A.2000704@chemistry.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <44F45E2A.2000704@chemistry.ohio-state.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/