Re: How to properly set up a chrooted environment

2010-04-02 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 02:06:11AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: On 01/04/2010 21:46, d.sastre.medina wrote: There is no manual for chroot on cygwin, because no one here recommends doing it for anything serious. I would never recommend exposing *any* Cygwin server to the internet-at-large

How to properly set up a chrooted environment

2010-04-01 Thread d . sastre . medina
Hello, 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 Before presuming anything, I did my homework, RTFM (found nothing, though), STFW and STFCPMLA. Got some recent hits: [1]

Re: How to properly set up a chrooted environment

2010-04-01 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/01/2010 02:19 PM, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, 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

Re: How to properly set up a chrooted environment

2010-04-01 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 02:26:46PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: On 04/01/2010 02:19 PM, David wrote: Hello, 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

Re: How to properly set up a chrooted environment

2010-04-01 Thread NightStrike
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:46 PM, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: I was thinking about a ftp server. Users would log in into the jail, say /chroot/home/proftp/... Most ftp servers provide this functionality natively. And this is just for testing/learning purposes and fun. A great way to

Re: How to properly set up a chrooted environment

2010-04-01 Thread Dave Korn
On 01/04/2010 21:46, d.sastre.medina wrote: And this is just for testing/learning purposes and fun. That's of course fine; anything you run for yourself in your own private network isn't a problem, but it's worth being explicit about this: There is no manual for chroot on cygwin, because no

Re: How to properly set up a chrooted environment

2010-04-01 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 04/01/2010 01:26 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 04/01/2010 02:19 PM, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, 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 Cygw What do you hope to accomplish with this? You are NOT