[ale] sftp on Cygwin

[terry at bitlinx.com (Terry Bailey)]

Hi,


The following is relative to Cygwin.

Brian sent a fix to the directory problem with sftp this morning and said 
that he would like to know if there was something simpler.  So, here is a 
question.

When a user (say Joe) logs in using ssh, he is immediately placed in 
his/her directory say /cygdrive/d/ftproot/joe.  And with ssh, the usr is 
locked into that directory and cannot get out.  This is what I want to 
happen.  I answered "yes" to privilege separation when I ran ssh-host-config.

The problem is that sftp is not locked into the home directory and can 
wander all over the place.  Since sftp is a subsystem of Openssh, I thought 
sftp would follow the lead of ssh and be locked into the home directory as 
well, but this is not the case.

Why is a chroot not necessary for ssh and my be necessary for sftp?  Is 
there some simple fix that can cause sftp to follow the lead of ssh ?



Thanks,

Terry Bailey