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TheO wrote:

<snip>

> As far as I am concerned, user's view is restricted enough to what I
> allow  them to see and do. If I revoke user's rights to write to any directory
> except /jail/home/user, then he should only be able to upload files to his
> jailed home directory.
> 
> My question is, how secure is Cygwin as SFTP server set up this way? Is
> there any security hole I don't know yet?

Security from the standpoint of access to the remote file system and
processes come from the security measures put in place under Windows
on the remote system.  SFTP under Cygwin will not provide this.  It
only provids encrypted transport.

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