X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org References: <664060.6380.qm@web34704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <49341625.2090804@cygwin.com> <933558.98400.qm@web34705.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4934527E.2070200@cygwin.com> <961872.64997.qm@web34701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <493568B8.3010308@cygwin.com> <49376.99112.qm@web34702.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20081202231141.GA5449@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <451120.45664.qm@web34703.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4935DD4B.7050907@cygwin.com> <690548.2534.qm@web34702.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4936FEA1.705@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 08:48:22 -0800 (PST) From: TheO Subject: Re: Finally managed to create a jailed SFTP server, but how secure? To: cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <828494.98789.qm@web34707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 > > 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. -- 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/