Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 22:25:48 +0000 Message-ID: <4872-Sun20Jan2002222548+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: 21.5 (beta2) "artichoke" XEmacs Lucid (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 7.00 under 21.5 (beta2) "artichoke" XEmacs Lucid From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Marcus Schwartz Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Reasonable security for remote non-administrative accounts In-Reply-To: <000101c1a1e7$922462e0$ef984082@tufts.edu> References: <000101c1a1e7$922462e0$ef984082@tufts.edu> On Sunday 20 Jan 02, Marcus Schwartz writes: > I'm trying to set up sshd so I can offer non-root accounts to people who > I don't want to have full access to my computer. It was my understanding that you should not expect Cygwin to be secure enough for this, depending on how careful you need to be. There is a FAQ entry "How secure is Cygwin in a multi-user environment?" and the answer is not secure. It's an old FAQ entry, but I assume it still applies. Regards, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/