Re: instalation in other than c:\

["Kendall Bennett" <KendallB at scitechsoft dot com>]

DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com> wrote:

> > 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. 

That is possible. I know you definately cannot write to it, but 
perhaps it is possibl to read it. In fact I am sure it is because I 
was broswing it as a regular user when I was trying to figure out 
what was wrong.

Regards,

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