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 ----- original message -------- Subject: CygWin Security & Performance Issues Sent: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 From: David Law<[email protected]> > 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 > > > -- > 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 > > --- original message end ---- -- 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
