At 20:01 24-4-2002, Michael F. March wrote: >In the company I work for they have outlawed all Unix >variants (Linux, Solaris, OSX) from certain networks. I >asked why Cygwin could not be installed and here is >some of the response I got back: > > > Cygwin, in itself, is typically a harmless application. > > However, once installed, it does allow a user to invalidate > > the NT Security architecture; a user can then install cygwin > > ports without the NT administrators consent (including, of > > course, the cygwin DHCP port).
You mean, they outlaw UNIX style operating systems and only allow Windows for *security* reasons?!? I'm not sure if that's hilarious or sad. Probably both... - Michael -- I always wondered about the meaning of life. So I looked it up in the dictionary under "L" and there it was - the meaning of life. It was not what I expected. - Dogbert -- 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/