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Re: Unable to compile cygwin


At 11:57 PM 12/22/2003 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 11:13:00PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>>I believe that the latest snapshot is "as secure as Windows" in the case
>>where the only Cygwin processes are logged in using Terminal Services
>>on Windows 2003 or Windows 2000 sp4, and do not have the "Create Global
>>Object" privilege (please don't laugh, that's an achievement).
>>That is, if such a user runs cygwin compiled programs under a cygwin shell,
>>he is no more exposed and has no more power that if running regular Windows 
>>programs under cmd.exe
>
>There are still other holes.
>
>However, while I understand that there is no real security in security
>through obscurity, I don't think it is useful to discuss all of the
>specific holes we know of in a public list.

Can you be more explicit on this list, or privately?

Pierre


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