* FW: problem with cron
@ 2006-01-12 18:48 Dave Korn
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From: Dave Korn @ 2006-01-12 18:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'cygwin-serialz-n-warez-r-us@cygwin.com'
Mike Stathopoulos wrote:
> I having problems running the cron on my system. Can you help?
>
> Thanks, Mike
:-D Did anyone else notice the free registration code for FractaleXtreme in
that post?
Cygcheck is perhaps a bit overzealous in the way it appears to recurse into
any key under HKCU\Software that begins with the string "Cygnus". Cygnus
software != Cygnus solutions, after all.
Then again, we just had a practical demonstration of why stored plaintext
passwords are A Bad Thing, even if they only exist in a file on your own
computer that's protected by ACLs that only let the named user access it. A
valuable lesson in infosec for us all.
(I must remember to point this out on FD next time someone posts a
"plaintext password storage vulnerability" report and someone else says it's
no problem because it's in the user's home dir...)
cheers,
DaveK
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