[Proposal] Moving user mount information to HKLM

Robert Collins rbcollins@cygwin.com
Fri Sep 27 09:10:00 GMT 2002


On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 00:57, Dan Vasaru wrote:
> 
> Robert,
> 
> Your solution only works if the users are local administrators, as a domain
> user has no rights to HKLM  (and hence to create a system mount). In our
> case, giving all users local administrator rights is an acceptable solution,
> but we're still left with a maximum of 25-30 simultaneous users. But we'll
> go with it while waiting for a better mount.
> 
> Thanks, Dan.

Excellent, I'm glad you have a workaround.

FWIW the HKLM user mounts would have the same security ramification
(which is why it's not a generically viable solution).

Rob
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