Please don't... ... waste peoples time with meaningless acronyms. Best regards, DaveLaw
----- original message -------- Subject: Re: CygWin Security & Performance Issues Sent: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 From: Corinna Vinschen<corinna-cyg...@cygwin.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 > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Red Hat > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > --- original message end ---- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple