<snip> > >Are there any other security related issues I should know about? I have > >to assume that cygwin as installed is safe until I have time to look > >into it, so I am hoping that my faith is not misplaced. > > > Strange that you should ask this question now, since you admit to using > Cygwin prior to all this and apparently this wasn't a concern then. No > matter. See the FAQ entry: > > How secure is Cygwin in a multi-user environment? > <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC78> >
Thanks, but that does not answer my question. I do not know what daemons are running. I did not start any. I assume some are started in the installation process but I don't know how to find out which they are. I just searched the FAQs for any other mention of "daemon" and found none. I have also checked the User's guide but it does not seem to contain any relevant info that I can see. There should never be any users logged in remotely to my cygwin and if there is something I have to do to enforce that, that's part of what I want to know. I should also be the only one using sftp, ssh, etc. With the previous version of cygwin, I was able to sftp and ssh from cygwin to other machines but not from other machines to my desktop computer. I hope that is still the case. I'll check it eventually, but as mentioned, I have a more-than-full time job as other than an UNIX programmer or system administrator and I cannot just stop and spend a month setting up cygwin. In the past I didn't have to. The lack of relevant documentation and the complexity of the current setup and install process are extremely frustrating. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
