Read access to all keys in /proc/registry

[William S Fulton]

Chris January wrote:
>>find /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/
>>
>>does not go down the /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE 
>>directory(key)
>>because there is no read access for people outside of the SYSTEM group:
>>
>>$ ls -la /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/
>>total 0
>>dr-xr-xr--    5 Administ SYSTEM          0 Jul 10 08:50 .
>>dr-xr-xr-x    9 0        0               0 Jul 10 13:03 ..
>>dr-xr-xr--    4 Administ SYSTEM          0 Jul 10 08:50 HARDWARE
>>dr-xr-xr--    1 Administ SYSTEM          0 Mar 15  2001 SAM
>>dr-xr-xr-x    1 0        0               0 Jul 10 13:03 SECURITY
>>dr-xr-x---   65 Administ SYSTEM          0 Mar 15  2001 SOFTWARE
>>dr-xr-x---    6 Administ SYSTEM          0 Mar 15  2001 SYSTEM
>>
>>The SYSTEM group is not a normal Windows group, so how can I add 
>>myself to the 
>>SYSTEM group (Cygwin doesn't provide the usual Linux group commands e.g. 
>>usermod, newgrp). Otherwise, how can I modify the permissions for 
>>read access to 
>>others so that the find command goes down the SOFTWARE directory?
> 
> 1. Can you access the key using ls?
> 2. Can you access the key in regedit?
> 3. Are you running as an Administrator?
> 
Yes to all three, I've just doubled checked. In fact a

   find /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE

will traverse down the SOFTWARE 'directory', but a

   find /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

won't.

William


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