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From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Removing netcat from Cygwin
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:39:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6950a8d-7dcb-0071-a8d6-fd2596136a63@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM6PR10MB353096EF5C814F6FB2CDB464B8879@DM6PR10MB3530.namprd10.prod.outlook.com>

On 16.02.2021 18:05, Rodney Kissee via Cygwin wrote:
> My company identifies netcat as a hacking tool and is requiring it to be removed from our version of Cygwin.  How can it be removed or can Cygwin be downloaded without netcat included?
> 

I assume you are talking of

/usr/bin/nc

$ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/nc
nc-1.107-4

Solution:
   do not install the "nc" package or remove it if
   already installed

Or are you installing everything ?

https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.everything


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-16 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-16 17:05 Rodney Kissee
2021-02-16 17:20 ` Thomas Wolff
2021-02-16 17:35   ` Thomas Wolff
2021-02-16 18:05     ` Marco Atzeri
2021-02-16 17:21 ` matthew patton
2021-02-16 17:29 ` Stephen John Smoogen
2021-02-16 17:39 ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
2021-02-16 17:40 ` Brian Inglis

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