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Subject: Re: umount /cygdrive/c
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On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 02:41:06PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Tyler Durden wrote:
>>Good point.  Is there a way for a user to find out what this mountpoint
>>is when they can only establish a sshd session to the server?
>
>Of course they can.  They could type "mount" or simply "cygpath c:/".
>This provides zero security.

And it should be noted that even if you could somehow hide the /cygdrive/X
stuff you still have to contend with the fact that regular old MS-DOS
c:/foo syntax will still work for a large number of different programs.

cgf

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