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Subject:	Re: CygWin Security &amp; Performance Issues
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On Aug 12 14:33, David Law wrote:
> Did anyone have any thoughts about the security side of the question:
> do I have more, less or exactly the same rights?

Yes.  Cygwin is just a user space DLL, not an OS.  If you're an admin
user not running under UAC or in an elevated shell, it *might* appear
that you have more rights than other, native Win32 apps.  However,
that's not the case.  The native apps just don't use their rights
effectively.


Corinna

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