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On Aug 12 14:33, David Law wrote: > Did anyone have any thoughts about the security side of the question: > do I have more, less or exactly the same rights? Yes. Cygwin is just a user space DLL, not an OS. If you're an admin user not running under UAC or in an elevated shell, it *might* appear that you have more rights than other, native Win32 apps. However, that's not the case. The native apps just don't use their rights effectively. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
