Re: michael's openssh for windows

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

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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