Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 11:48:32 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Unable to compile cygwin Message-ID: <20031222164832.GC2545@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 03:29:25PM +0100, Gabriel SOUBIES wrote: >I've been using Cygwin for a while and am really happy with it. >But recently my paranoid boss has asked me to prove him that there was no >security problem with using Cygwin on our secure network. Cygwin is not secure. It's a given. There are surely easy local exploits that could be used to break it. We (i.e., Pierre Humblet) are slowly working on this but it is not likely to change anytime soon. -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to aaaspam@sourceware.org and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/