Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: X-Sender: snyper411 AT hotmail DOT com In-Reply-To: <434ECA87.4010409@cygwin.com> From: "ABi DaR" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: security concerns / production environment Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:44:06 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Well, I want to install cygwin on a production server and wanted to make sure there are no current security concerns or things that I should be aware of. I just wanted to know if anybody else had any issues where it conflicted with any existing application that was running at the time or any modification they had to make to cygwin for security purposes.
From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
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To: ABi DaR <snyper411 AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: security concerns / production environment
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:58:47 -0400
>ABi DaR wrote:
>>Greetings,
>> Are there any known issues about running "cygwin SSHD" service
>>in a production environment? Is there any concern I should be
>>aware of or has anyone run into problems running it on a production
>>server with ColdFusion running on it.
>
>
>What kind of issues? Just how it works with ColdFusion? Perhaps
>others
>can answer that. I've run Cygwin's sshd for years to tunnel VNC and
>not
>had any problems.
>
>If your concern is security, you may want to read the following
>Cygwin FAQ:
>
><http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.api.secure>
>
>
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