7 replies to this topic

[RomanB]

I am setting a lot of string in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Under Windows NT and 2000 the Setup has to be started unter the user Administtrator. Teh setup is working fine, but if you cahange to another user, the rights for the entries in the registry are set so, that just the administrator has the permissins the program needs. Does anybody know a solution to set the permissions in the setup script.
Thank you for any help

[Taco Bell]

What's the permission level of this other account?  Administrator, Power User, User, etc.

Another Admin would be able to read & write HK_LOCAL_MACHINE.  A Power User would be able to just read it. A User should able to read it as well, but I haven't had experience with this level of access.

Typically you want to put global information in HK_LOCAL_MACHINE and customized information in HK_CURRENT_USER.

[Fouad Rziki]

try to launch regini.exe and set the needed registry permission.

Fouad

[Taco Bell]

There's no such thing as regini.exe.

[Fouad Rziki]

Regini

Regini.exe is a versatile tool for making mass changes to the Registry. While not as easy to use as Regedit, it is capable of doing much more than just adding keys and values. You can delete keys and make some minor changes to Registry security. Regini also supports a form of logging that lets you know whether the changes you make actually succeed.

http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/237/2.html

[Taco Bell]

Ahh, interesting.  I'll have to check that out.

However, I don't think that would help him since it wouldn't be accessible from his setup script in order to get this right in the first place.

[Maximilien]

A normal user need not write in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, I think the program must only read from there and subsenquently, write and read from the HKEY_CURRENT_USER ...

[rags33]

Hi,

I have the same problem. My setup sets the registry entries under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE. The permissions for the administrators are FULL. Any user who is not an administrator will have only the read permissions.

 This is under the machinename\Power Users\.

Is there a way in which we set set the permissions through installshield for all the users?

Thanks