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RE: AllVersions: Running Cygwin X w/ Registy Entries
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:45:13 +0100
- Subject: RE: AllVersions: Running Cygwin X w/ Registy Entries
Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> * Chris Taylor (2005-10-26 17:38 +0100)
>> Problem with that is that if the sysadmin knows what he's doing, it only
>> takes about 4 seconds to block off almost all possible ways of actually
>> editing the registry...
>
> Definitely not.
Oh yes it does. Start->Run->regedit. Right-click the user's tree under
HKEY_USERS, choose Permissions, remove their write access leaving them a
read-only per-user registry tree. Easily done in 4 seconds by an experienced
BOFH, and can't be reversed without admin rights!
cheers,
DaveK
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