Security Issue with Cygwin

Robert Collins rbcollins@cygwin.com
Thu Jan 23 04:16:00 GMT 2003


On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 11:48, Lambeth Darwin wrote:
> To whom it may concern;
> 
> Not sure if you know this or not, but the default configuration with Cygwin allows any user to change to any directory on a W2K box and delete whatever files they want. I have installed it with the current default instructions and was able to logon as a regular domain user and cd to c: and delete or add files. That is a major issue. Let me know if there is something I missed.

Thats the Microsoft default install that grants those permissions.
Cygwin doesn't affect permissions outside of the cygwin directory tree.

Rob
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