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Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:57:50 -0400
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On 10/9/2012 4:51 PM, julien2412 wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote
>> On 10/9/2012 2:37 PM, julien2412 wrote:
>>> How to workaround launching Cygwin with admin rights and still access
>>> these
>>> registry keys?
>> Windows won't let programs run by unprivileged users manipulate this
>> registry hive.  If you only need read access, you will need to change the
>> configuration tool to drop the permissions it does not need.  If you do
>> that, then what you're doing should work.  Note that this isn't Cygwin-
>> specific.  You'd see this same issue even if you removed Cygwin from the
>> equation.
>
> Sorry for having talked about the configuration tool, it's misleading here.
>
> In Cygwin, if I just test "ls /proc/reg*", it shows there are
> "/proc/registry", "/proc/registry32" and "/proc/registry64"
>
> Now if I just run an ls /proc/registry/<abbreviated
> HKLM>/SOFTWARE/Microsoft, I can see the registry keys I quoted only if I
> launch Cygwin with admin rights.

Oh, OK.

> Anyway, I noticed that with regtool, everything was ok.
> Is "regtool" the recommanded way to access (in read only) registry keys? And
> so we should avoid to run things like this Perl script line:
> open($fhandle, "/proc/registry/$key") )

Whichever works. ;-)

Thanks for the clarification.
-- 
Larry

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