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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:45:16 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>
To: KendallB@scitechsoft.com
CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
In-reply-to: <200007251913842.SM00169@KENDALLB>
Subject: Re: instalation in other than c:\
References: <200007251607977.SM00160@KENDALLB> <200007251913842.SM00169@KENDALLB>


> 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.

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