From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Kendall Bennett" To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: instalation in other than c:\ Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:20:00 -0000 Message-id: <397F2CF6.18259.4B6BAF@localhost> References: <200007251913842.SM00169@KENDALLB> <200007261345.JAA17603@envy.delorie.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-07/msg01034.html DJ Delorie wrote: > > However there is one major catch with this. If you put the registry > > keys under HKLM, on Windows 2000 you need Administrator privledges to > > be able to access that registry tree. I did an install to the system > > on my box, and both the Administrator and KendallB accounts worked > > fine, but regular users did not see the registry settings! > > Can a non-priviledged user read HKLM with regtool or regedit? If > so, we might just be reading the registry with the wrong requested > permissiong (rw vs ro) in cygwin. That is possible. I know you definately cannot write to it, but perhaps it is possibl to read it. In fact I am sure it is because I was broswing it as a regular user when I was trying to figure out what was wrong. Regards, +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | SciTech Software - Building Truly Plug'n'Play Software! | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Kendall Bennett | Email: KendallB@scitechsoft.com | | Director of Engineering | Phone: (530) 894 8400 | | SciTech Software, Inc. | Fax : (530) 894 9069 | | 505 Wall Street | ftp : ftp.scitechsoft.com | | Chico, CA 95928, USA | www : http://www.scitechsoft.com | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com