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Date:	Wed, 08 Aug 2001 10:45:40 -0400
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From:	"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Silly question about OpenSSH and Cygwin
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At 10:31 AM 8/8/2001, joshua DOT newton AT dfs DOT com wrote:
>Is Cygwin still inherently insecure on a multiuser system, or is this a FAQ
>entry that hasn't been
>revised in a while? If it's still correct, is there any way to lock it down

Cygwin itself is insecure so anything built on it is inherently insecure,
at the local level.  At this point, there are no implemented options to 
address this issue. 


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