michael's openssh for windows

jwaterbrook jwaterbrook@keyww.com
Tue Aug 12 19:21:00 GMT 2003


This thread lead me to many turns in the road to what I found to be a 
solution for me:
someone suggested adding /usr/sbin/sftp-server to the passwd file 
instead of the original /bin/switch or /bin/sh.

however, scp doesn't work along with ssh, but I was trying to get sftp 
working, so I see no loss.

I have yet to figure out a way to jail the user though.  They can still 
cd into /cygdrive/c and also cd .. and see the passwd file.

If anyone has suggestions on this please comment.

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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