From: Lapo Luchini <lapo@lapo.it>
To: Mailing List: CygWin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Getting Cygwin into a corporation..
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CC75D7C.1030207@lapo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA7600C5EE7@itdomain003.itdomain.net.au>
>
>
>>>Cygwin, in itself, is typically a harmless application.
>>>However, once installed, it does allow a user to invalidate
>>>the NT Security architecture; a user can then install cygwin
>>>ports without the NT administrators consent (including, of
>>>course, the cygwin DHCP port).
>>>
>>>
Never heard of software that "takes over" the security of the OS just
for the sake of installing programs (unless it has malicious intent
*and* the OS has an exploitable bug)...
-_-
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-25 1:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-24 17:35 Robert Collins
2002-04-24 19:33 ` Lapo Luchini [this message]
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2002-04-24 12:05 Michael F. March
2002-04-24 12:10 ` Chris Ellsworth
2002-04-24 14:42 ` Sam Edge
2002-04-24 17:09 ` Michael Schaap
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