Removing netcat from Cygwin

Marco Atzeri marco.atzeri@gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 18:05:13 GMT 2021


On 16.02.2021 18:35, Thomas Wolff wrote:

> Am 16.02.2021 um 18:20 schrieb Thomas Wolff:
>> Am 16.02.2021 um 18:05 schrieb Rodney Kissee via Cygwin:
>>> My company identifies netcat as a hacking tool and is requiring it to 
>>> be removed from our version of Cygwin.  How can it be removed or can 
>>> Cygwin be downloaded without netcat included?
>> There is no netcat cygwin package. You must have installed it separately.
> Stephen wrote:
>> Click 'view Full'
>> scroll down to nc
> Ah, right, it's called nc, but it's not in the base category. Maybe it 
> slipped in as a depency of some other package?
> 

Nope. not pulled by any package

$ cygcheck-dep -S -q -n nc
  nc: is needed for ( )




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