[ale] cygwin security concerns under Windows?

Jeff Lightner jlightner at water.com
Thu Aug 7 15:29:20 EDT 2008


Experts-exchange?  Is this a joke?   I routinely ignore that site
because it wants you to register and pay for the privilege.  

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Chris Fowler
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 3:05 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] cygwin security concerns under Windows?

Jeff Lightner wrote:
>
> We're considering installing cygwin to run sshd on one of our Windows 
> production servers.
>
> My co-worker seems to hate Cygwin for some reason so is throwing up 
> objections that aren't articulated very well. Is there in fact any 
> reason that Cygwin sshd on Windows 2000 or 2003 would be more insecure

> than sshd on a UNIX/Linux server? Is Cygwin itself insecure?
>

This is the only link with "cygwin is insecure"

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server_Software/Web_Servers/Q_2
1717852.html

Look near the bottom


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