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Re: OpenSSH - sftp not working for non-Administrator users


On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:15, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct Â5 20:18, Julio Costa wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 19:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> > Why don't you just put cygwin1.dll into $CHROOT-DIR/bin?
>> >
>>
>> I did. It obviously works. But I see this more as the workaround, not
>> the solution.
>>
>> I'm trying to go from the workaround to the general solution.
>
> I think putting the DLL into /bin is the general solution.

Ok. Solution 3). That closes this thread.

Let's move on, then.

> I wrote this on this list a couple of times and I'm writing this again, as long as
> anybody wants to read it: ÂChroot is a bad hack, bad fake on Cygwin and
> I curse the day I added this to Cygwin. ÂDon't use chroot and think
> you're safe. ÂYou're not. ÂIt's just a joke of a jail. ÂDon't put too
> much work into it. ÂI, certainly, won't.
>

I'll open a new thread about these Chroot recurring misleads.
It deserves a thread of it's own.

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