Win NT 4.0 Cygwin sftp and chroot

From: George (kgeorge_at_blore.tcs.co.in)
Date: 06/20/03 

Date: 19 Jun 2003 15:20:35 -0700

We have a Win nt LAN in which all users of more than one domain have
access to a shared drive. We recieve certain files from third parties
which are currently send by mail.
 
        we want the third parties to ftp the files rather than mail it.
We want to give access to third parties only to the directory they
login and the directories below.We do not want them to go to the
directories above and access / read files within.

        I am piloting this on my machine (NT 4.0 sp6) i installed cygwin and
openssh. But i am able to access the entire dir struct from root (c:\)
, i tried creating a guest user with home directory as test this works
if i am using the GUI from SSH @ Secure Shell. But if i use a sftp
thru openssh i am able to do a cd ../ which i do not want.
        
        Searching on the net, chroot is something i could find , but couldn't
make much out of it. Also going to Linux is not viable , because it
would involve changes to which we do not have expertise.

        Thanks in advance for your time

Loading