Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-20 Thread Warren Young
Will Parsons wrote: why would cygwin be less secure? The more moving parts, the more things there are to break. Postulate that you have a program that's been audited to the point that you're absolutely certain it's 100% secure when run on Linux. Then you port it to Cygwin. Is it secure?

Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-20 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 03:08:55AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: Will Parsons wrote: why would cygwin be less secure? The more moving parts, the more things there are to break. Postulate that you have a program that's been audited to the point

Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-20 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 03:08:55AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: Will Parsons wrote: why would cygwin be less secure? The more moving parts, the more things there are to break. Postulate that you have a program that's been audited to the point that you're absolutely certain it's 100% secure when

RE: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-20 Thread Dave Korn
On 20 September 2007 10:09, Warren Young wrote: Will Parsons wrote: why would cygwin be less secure? Just one way it could fail is if there is a buffer overflow in the implementation of one of Cygwin's interfaces, and your 100% secure program calls it. It's then only a matter of time for a

Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-18 Thread d.henman
Marko, the best way for you would be to throw Windows out and use a mature unix like o.s. Cygwin documents that it is not made for secure operation, due to Captial w windows, faults cheers. d. henman Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marko Loparic wrote: Hello Steve, On

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2007-09-18 Thread Marko Loparic
PROTECTED] To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 1:49:39 PM Subject: Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support? Hello Steve, On 9/17/07, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick note, by the way, to question your apparent assumption that paid support

Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-18 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 03:58:29PM +0900, d.henman wrote: Marko, the best way for you would be to throw Windows out and use a mature unix like o.s. Cygwin documents that it is not made for secure operation, due to Captial w windows, faults Cygwin potentially adds a whole other layer of

Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-18 Thread Brian Dessent
Will Parsons wrote: I'm curious about this. I think I recall from years ago a response to an enquiry about cygwin security that was basically along the lines that cygwin is as secure as the underlying Windows system. That made sense to me - why would cygwin be less secure? Fundamentally,

Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-18 Thread Will Parsons
Christopher Faylor wrote: Cygwin potentially adds a whole other layer of insecurity on top of Windows. We do try to keep security in mind but, nevertheless, we don't recommend using Cygwin in a secure instalation unless there has been quite a bit of validation. I'm curious about this. I

RE: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-17 Thread Phil Betts
Marko Loparic wrote on Friday, September 14, 2007 3:42 PM:: Hello, Is there someone that could offer paid support for a cygwin problem I have? I have tried to contact Red Hat but they did not seem interested in offering support for the type of problem I have (or perhaps I didn't reach

Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-17 Thread Marko Loparic
Hi Phil, I have also tried to do what you say but it did not solve the problem. Thanks a lot anyway, Marko On 9/17/07, Phil Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marko Loparic wrote on Friday, September 14, 2007 3:42 PM:: Hello, Is there someone that could offer paid support for a cygwin

Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-17 Thread Steve Holden
Marko Loparic wrote: Hi Phil, I have also tried to do what you say but it did not solve the problem. Thanks a lot anyway, Just a quick note, by the way, to question your apparent assumption that paid support will get you any further than using this list! The information you get here is

Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-17 Thread Keith Christian
- Original Message From: Marko Loparic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 1:49:39 PM Subject: Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support? Hello Steve, On 9/17/07, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick note, by the way

Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-17 Thread Marko Loparic
Hello Steve, On 9/17/07, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick note, by the way, to question your apparent assumption that paid support will get you any further than using this list! I have already tried the list, some people helped, someone suggested me to use cacls, which

Re: Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-17 Thread Steve Holden
Marko Loparic wrote: Hello Steve, On 9/17/07, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick note, by the way, to question your apparent assumption that paid support will get you any further than using this list! I have already tried the list, some people helped, someone suggested me to

Is there someone offering cygwin paid support?

2007-09-14 Thread Marko Loparic
Hello, Is there someone that could offer paid support for a cygwin problem I have? I have tried to contact Red Hat but they did not seem interested in offering support for the type of problem I have (or perhaps I didn't reach the right person...). It is described in the cygwin list: