X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_THREADED,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,URI_HEX X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:17:26 -0700 (PDT) From: julien2412 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <1349864246547-93451.post@n5.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <20121010073145.GA31314@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <1349807869703-93406.post@n5.nabble.com> <507484C0.3070406@cygwin.com> <1349815868856-93419.post@n5.nabble.com> <50749DDE.6030905@cygwin.com> <1349850743935-93436.post@n5.nabble.com> <20121010073145.GA31314@calimero.vinschen.de> Subject: Re: Registry keys not only accessible when user MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Corinna Vinschen-2 wrote > On Oct 9 23:32, julien2412 wrote: > ... >> 1) Why with no admin rights, ls /proc/registry doesn't map all the keys? >> After all, the goal is just to read only >> 2) Is there a way to have access to any registry keys without admin >> rights >> and without using regtool? > > If you could show us examples, we might even be able to look into > this problem, *if* it is a problem. I just tried the following on > Windows 7 as an UAC-restricted admin: > ... > Now, if you could give us some details from your side, we might be > able to see a pattern. I'm not at home to test again but here is a quotation of what I had post on dev mailing list of LibreOffice (http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Registry-keys-for-Windows-compilation-td3521322.html) " For example, there's nothing there : /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/VCExpress And there's nothing cause permissions aren't ok : ls -l /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/ d--------- 1 400 401 0 Nov 19 18:53 VBExpress d--------- 1 400 401 0 Nov 19 18:53 VCExpress d--------- 1 400 401 0 Nov 19 18:53 VCSExpress But I can't succeed in adding +rx on these directories. When I look at authorizations on Windows registry, it's the same as Mediaplayer which appears like this on Cygwin : dr-x------ 3 SYSTEM SYSTEM 0 Sep 2 2009 MediaPlayer " Julien -- View this message in context: http://cygwin.1069669.n5.nabble.com/Registry-keys-not-only-accessible-when-user-tp93406p93451.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple