How secure is Cygwin in a multi-user environment?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar  3 00:09, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> As of version 1.5.13, the Cygwin developers are not aware of any feature
> in the cygwin dll that would allow users to gain privileges or to access
> objects to which they have no rights under Windows. However there is no
> guarantee that Cygwin is as secure as the Windows it runs on.
> Cygwin processes share some variables and are thus easier targets of
> denial of service type of attacks.

Sounds good to me.


Corinna

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