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Re: Getting Cygwin into a corporation..
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>>>Cygwin, in itself, is typically a harmless application.
>>>However, once installed, it does allow a user to invalidate
>>>the NT Security architecture; a user can then install cygwin
>>>ports without the NT administrators consent (including, of
>>>course, the cygwin DHCP port).
>>>
>>>
Never heard of software that "takes over" the security of the OS just
for the sake of installing programs (unless it has malicious intent
*and* the OS has an exploitable bug)...
-_-
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