Cygdrive mounts

[Chris Ellsworth]

oh well
i think what im going to do is put all the users that connect into a
group then give that group deny rights to C:\ and other drives
that would probly do it for me.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael A Chase" <mchase@ix.netcom.com>
To: "Chris Ellsworth" <cke@highlandshighspeed.net>;
<cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: Cygdrive mounts


> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:45:52 -0700 Chris Ellsworth
<cke@highlandshighspeed.net> wrote:
>
> > I am doing install of this for sshd on windows for clients for the
> > purpose of forwarding ports for access such as VNC, pcanywhere FTP
and
> > other items and i dont want to give access to the other areas of
the
> > drives. I tryed the umount command and have not sucessfully
removed
> > it. maybe i am doing something but here is what i have done.
> >
> > [admin@2k-iis-ikon]~:{103}:$ mount
> > c:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
> > c:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
> > c:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
> > c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount)
> > f: on /cygdrive/f type user (textmode,noumount)
> > [admin@2k-iis-ikon]~:{104}:$ umount -U
> > [admin@2k-iis-ikon]~:{105}:$ mount
> > c:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
> > c:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
> > c:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
> > c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount)
> > f: on /cygdrive/f type user (textmode,noumount)
> > [admin@2k-iis-ikon]~:{106}:$
>
> You are likely doomed to disappointment.  Even if you disable
/cygdrive/c,
> c:/xxx will probably still work.  Perhaps sshd will allow you to
specify a
> local root.  You can link or mount whatever you want to allow access
to
> from inside there.
>
> I tried "umount -U -c" and "umount -c", but neither worked for me,
probably
> a local system problem.  I was able to delete the information in the
> registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts
v2),
> but I don't know what other side effects might result so I'm putting
it
> back right away.
>
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