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Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 16:13:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: jwaterbrook <jwaterbrook AT keyww DOT com>
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Subject: Re: michael's openssh for windows
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You might try to change that script to

#!/bin/sh
echo "Parameters: $@"
exec /bin/sh "$@"

Hope this helps,
	Igor
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, jwaterbrook wrote:

>  A comment about the script method:
>
> for some reason, this didn't seem to return any result.
> I added /usr/bin/sftponly to the passwd file instead of /bin/sh or
> /bin/switch
> and created a /usr/bin/sftponly file with this inside:
> #!/bin/sh
>
> echo "$*"
>
> /bin/sh
>
> however, this did not create any output.  So I have a feeling, nothing
> is being passed in this build.
>
> I may be going at this the wrong way, so if anyone would like to correct
> me, please do so.
>
> Thanks,
> Johnny
>
>
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > The thread starting at
> > <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01379.html>
> > might be of help.
> >         Igor
> >
> > On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, jwaterbrook wrote:
> >
> > > I haven't seemed to get very far with this,
> > > I was hoping someone might be able to point a blind man in the right
> > > direction
> > >
> > > Waterbrook, Johnny wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'd prefer not to start a new thread, but I've been searching for the
> > > > past few hours with no luck.
> > > >
> > > > I needed a fast way to set up sftp on a winXP box, so I did a little
> > > > google search and found lexa.mckenna.edu/sshwindows/ had a clean and
> > > > easy way of doing this.
> > > > I changed the regestry setting "/home" to a different drive, and the
> > > > passwd file's entry form :/home/USERNAME: to :/home: so when my "auts
> > > > ex-uncle" wants to login to my sftp server, they can't browse my windows
> > > > directory structure.
> > > >
> > > > However, when my "aunts ex-uncle" realizes he can also ssh into the box,
> > > > I don't want him running "windows" commands such as cmd, nbtstat, dir
> > > > etc.  I just want to "limit" him to what is available in /bin I guess.
> > > >
> > > > Am I going about this wrong?  Is there a cygwin/openssh implemenation
> > > > that "stands alone" from windows so I could set up a sftp server much
> > > > like a normal ftp server?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > > Johnny

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