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

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Oct  5 16:07, Julio Costa wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:57, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Nevertheless there's something fishy. ?The /bin path is added
> > automatically by cygrunsrv so that the service doesn't have to care for
> > a default $PATH by itself. ?I assume it has something to do with path
> > permissions. ?Check the ACLs.
> 
> ... the reason is, I myselft stumped into something similar.
> After configuring openssh with chrooted sessions, I can login into one
> of these sessions (with a non-admin users), but any command that I try
> fail silently (unless it is a built-in).
> 
> From what I observed with the help of process monitor, is that any
> failing command try to load cygwin1.dll from the current directory
> (/bin) but will fail, because the dll in in /usr/bin.
> This difference (/bin vs /usr/bin) is not of importance to the
> majority of the cases because: a) /bin and /usr/bin are mirrors of
> each other , through mount magic; b) /usr/bin is also in the PATH.
> But in a sshd chrooted environment thigs are different: there is no
> mount -magic, and the .dlls get copied to the /usr/bin, following
> "advice" from ldd. The PATH also only have /bin, which don't help.
> 
> So, I was thinking, shouldn't make more sense that cygrunsrv do:
> a) add /usr/bin also as a bare-minimum, to cover chrooted environments
> (and to follow the /usr/bin/*.dll dependencies of cygwin binaries);

Why don't you just put cygwin1.dll into $CHROOT-DIR/bin?


Corinna

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