CygWin Security & Performance Issues

[David Law]

Did anyone have any thoughts about the security side of the question:
do I have more, less or exactly the same rights?

Best regards,
DaveLaw

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Subject: CygWin Security & Performance Issues
Sent: Thu, 12 Aug 2010
From: David Law<david.law@apconsult.de>

>   Hello List,
> 
> about 18 months ago we recommended cygwin as a unix-like
> environment for a Windows 2003 Server to our Admin.
> 
> This was turned down on the grounds that it did not satisfy
> the security requirements of our organisation. (unfortunately
> I don't know the details as I wasn't involved in the process)
> 
> Instead, the "Subsystem for Unix-based Applications" was chosen.
> 
> I am now trying to port a fairly simple shell script to SUA
> and find massive performance problems: under cygwin the script
> runs for about 20 minutes on my notebook, but under SUA it takes
> about 2 days on our Zillion-core 2003 Server!!
> 
> Firstly, I was wondering if SUA maybe has a reputation for
> bad performance, or could it maybe be the architecture of
> desktop contra server pc's?
> Would you expect better performance from cygwin?
> 
> Secondly, how do you see cygwin's compliance with a Windows
> Server security infrastructure?  Is a user limited to just
> the same as under windows or can they somehow access other
> users data they otherwise couldn't?  I noticed in cygwin 1.7
> there is something called LSA Authentication. Does this address
> these issues?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> DaveLaw
> 
> 
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