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 any > security to your system by using a cygwin chroot, because you do not > have operating system support (that is, an application can escape the > jail by using native Windows commands). chroot exists to ease porting > some programs (such as coreutils), but is NOT a solution for security > that you seem to think it is.
I was thinking about a ftp server. Users would log in into the jail, say /chroot/home/proftp/... And this is just for testing/learning purposes and fun. > > -is there a canonical way to do this? > > (and where is the manual :-)) > > There is no manual for chroot on cygwin, because no one here recommends > doing it for anything serious. OK. Got it. Thank you. -- Huella de clave = 943C D77F 0CB0 02FE 166E E06F D13A A2E1 98A5 C953
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