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 X-ORBL: [69.104.140.245] Message-ID: <4360ADDF.8050503@myrealbox.com> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 03:37:19 -0700 From: Tim Prince Reply-To: tprince@computer.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050921 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: AllVersions: Running Cygwin X w/ Registy Entries References: <1130262948.435e71a4abd76@webmail.mail.gatech.edu> <1130283941.435ec3a5672f2@webmail.mail.gatech.edu> <4kmnzwxkibr0.1rd655owgqdi6$.dlg@40tude.net> <20051026143731.GA1936@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <1g329hewnak2$.1knc01godo1ld.dlg@40tude.net> <435FB109.30506@equate.dyndns.org> <4360A2BA.8070704@equate.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <4360A2BA.8070704@equate.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chris Taylor wrote: > It's not *directly* editing the registry. As a sysadmin, I'm telling you > it *is* different. > The (l)user should *never* be allowed to edit the registry themselves. > That's a recipe for disaster. > In my book, this includes so-called junior sysadmins/techs/whatever. > No one should be allowed to make software which puts the (l)user in the position of having to use registry tools. But, this will not happen. For example, it is practically impossible to use Windows outside a corporate environment without installing something from SBC which habitually messes up 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/