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"Ted" <ttripp@rankexec.com> wrote in message
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> I'm looking through Tamarack and not seeing any snippets
> or other useful information.

Deja is a much better place to search, as it has a larger newsgroup archive.

In any case, I did a search on Tamarack and found a couple of tidbits pretty
quickly:

1)
    use RegGetKeySecurity() to retreive the current SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR for
the desired key, then call SetSecurityDescriptorDacl() to set the DACL to
NULL, and then call RegSetKeySecurity() to assign the SECURITY_DESCRIPTOR
back to the key.

2)
    regedit.exe has the same bug that people's Delphi programs tend to... It
tries to open the registry with KEY_ALL_ACCESS - which fails. KEY_ALL_ACCESS
includes KEY_CREATE_LINK, but HKLM\Software by default has 'Everyone's'
security set to exclude 'Create Link', although it allows reading and
writing.

    regedt32 doesn't have the problem.

    That's all true for NT4, anyway - but maybe Win2000 is subtley
different. To find out, log in as an Administrator, run regedt32, select
HKLM\SOFTWARE, select Security\Permissions from the menu, and see what it's
set to. On NT4 it's

    CREATOR OWNER Full Control
    Administrators Full Control
    SYSTEM Full Control
    Everyone Special (Includes read, write, create key, delete)


Also, a search at MSDN shows the following:

    Registry Key Security and Access Rights

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/registry_key_security_and_access_rights.asp


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