FW: problem with cron

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

Mike Stathopoulos wrote:
> I having problems running the cron on my system.  Can you help?
> 
> Thanks, Mike

:-D   Did anyone else notice the free registration code for FractaleXtreme in
that post?  




  Cygcheck is perhaps a bit overzealous in the way it appears to recurse into
any key under HKCU\Software that begins with the string "Cygnus".  Cygnus
software != Cygnus solutions, after all.

  Then again, we just had a practical demonstration of why stored plaintext
passwords are A Bad Thing, even if they only exist in a file on your own
computer that's protected by ACLs that only let the named user access it.  A
valuable lesson in infosec for us all.

  (I must remember to point this out on FD next time someone posts a
"plaintext password storage vulnerability" report and someone else says it's
no problem because it's in the user's home dir...)

    cheers,
      DaveK
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