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Re: CygWin Security & Performance Issues
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:09:19 +0200
- Subject: Re: CygWin Security & Performance Issues
- References: <201008121233.o7CCXwQl009772@post.webmailer.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Please don't http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU
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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