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Re: Cygdrive mounts


On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 10:45:52 -0700 Chris Ellsworth <cke@highlandshighspeed.net> wrote:

> I am doing install of this for sshd on windows for clients for the
> purpose of forwarding ports for access such as VNC, pcanywhere FTP and
> other items and i dont want to give access to the other areas of the
> drives. I tryed the umount command and have not sucessfully removed
> it. maybe i am doing something but here is what i have done.
> 
> [admin@2k-iis-ikon]~:{103}:$ mount
> c:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
> c:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
> c:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
> c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount)
> f: on /cygdrive/f type user (textmode,noumount)
> [admin@2k-iis-ikon]~:{104}:$ umount -U
> [admin@2k-iis-ikon]~:{105}:$ mount
> c:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
> c:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
> c:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
> c: on /cygdrive/c type user (textmode,noumount)
> f: on /cygdrive/f type user (textmode,noumount)
> [admin@2k-iis-ikon]~:{106}:$

You are likely doomed to disappointment.  Even if you disable /cygdrive/c,
c:/xxx will probably still work.  Perhaps sshd will allow you to specify a
local root.  You can link or mount whatever you want to allow access to
from inside there.

I tried "umount -U -c" and "umount -c", but neither worked for me, probably
a local system problem.  I was able to delete the information in the
registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\mounts v2),
but I don't know what other side effects might result so I'm putting it
back right away.

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