* Dave Korn (2005-10-26 19:45 +0100) > 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!
Yea, sure. And how many programms will you be able to run in that configuration? Will you even be able to logon? Anyway: mount won't work in that scenario either (because it modifies the registry). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/