Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: AllVersions: Running Cygwin X w/ Registy Entries Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:14:34 +0100 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <1e9ifv5iyvszt$.1mvv72nqwf2cg$.dlg@40tude.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-IsSubscribed: yes * Dave Korn (2005-10-26 19:45 +0100) > Thorsten Kampe wrote: >> * Chris Taylor (2005-10-26 17:38 +0100) >>> Problem with that is that if the sysadmin knows what he's doing, it only >>> takes about 4 seconds to block off almost all possible ways of actually >>> editing the registry... >> >> Definitely not. > > Oh yes it does. Start->Run->regedit. Right-click the user's tree under > HKEY_USERS, choose Permissions, remove their write access leaving them a > read-only per-user registry tree. Easily done in 4 seconds by an experienced > BOFH, and can't be reversed without admin rights! Yea, sure. And how many programms will you be able to run in that configuration? Will you even be able to logon? Anyway: mount won't work in that scenario either (because it modifies the registry). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/