X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4BB50186.5060003@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:26:46 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100301 Fedora/3.0.3-1.fc12 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, d.sastre.medina@gmail.com Subject: Re: How to properly set up a chrooted environment References: <20100401201915.GA3964@ghost.local.lan> In-Reply-To: <20100401201915.GA3964@ghost.local.lan> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigDF023FCEA73230A8CC1B6EF2" 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 --------------enigDF023FCEA73230A8CC1B6EF2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 04/01/2010 02:19 PM, d.sastre.medina@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, >=20 > I'm trying to build a chrooted env in a windows 7 box: > CYGWIN_NT-6.1 win7 1.7.2(0.225/5/3) 2010-03-24 21:12 i686 Cygwin What do you hope to accomplish with this? You are NOT adding any security to your system by using a cygwin chroot, because you do not have operating system support (that is, an application can escape the jail by using native Windows commands). chroot exists to ease porting some programs (such as coreutils), but is NOT a solution for security that you seem to think it is. >=20 > -is there a canonical way to do this? > (and where is the manual :-)) There is no manual for chroot on cygwin, because no one here recommends doing it for anything serious. --=20 Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --------------enigDF023FCEA73230A8CC1B6EF2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAku1AYkACgkQ84KuGfSFAYBtPwCdG/aHUe/XO6i327HNH3wi0p+9 J/cAoKeg5MZgMVWSMFioZ9dzdP3apSiF =Mdzq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigDF023FCEA73230A8CC1B6EF2--