YIKES user.exe stupidity.

DJ Delorie dj@delorie.com
Fri May 14 13:42:00 GMT 1999


> Some nice netizen downloaded user.exe and managed to overlay his
> system32/user.exe with it.  See the recent user archives for details.

Yowza!  We should have thought of that earlier.  Imaging how many more
Linux machines there'd be ;-)

> Here's the obvious suggestion, rename user.exe to usertools.exe without delay.

Done!  At least, when the ftp mirrors update themselves.

I added a user.exe.README that explains what happened.


More information about the Cygwin-developers mailing list