You are right about being dated ... That original e-mail was from 28/03/2003 :-)
But does that matter much if you are doing Win32 development and need
compatibility with W2K.
Regards
Paul McKenzie
Wellington
New Zealand
Jeremy North wrote:
That information is a bit outdated now.
Use the OpenKeyReadOnly method to avoid the issue when the user
doesn't have admin priviledges.
For the OP you need to use OpenProcessToken and GetTokenInformation
and compare the Sid with the administrator Sid which you get from
calling AllocateAndInitializeSid.
OpenProcessToken
ms-help://borland.bds4/security/security/openprocesstoken.htm
Check out the See Also section as you should really use
OpenThreadToken and if that fails use OpenProcessToken.
AllocateAndInitializeSid
ms-help://borland.bds4/security/security/allocateandinitializesid.htm
If you do a search on these keywords you might find a function already
prepared for you.
HTH,
Jeremy
On 5/8/06, Paul McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This may help...
This is a link I save ages ago (in case I need to do something similar)
http://www.delphi32.com/info_facts/faq/faq_349.asp
When using the TRegistry component under NT, a user with less than
"administrator" rights is unable
to access information stored in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. How can I work
around this?
The problem is caused by the fact that TRegistry (and the derived
TRegInifile) always opens a key
with KEY_ALL_ACCESS, even if only KEY_READ would be needed. You can
avoid this by going back to
using the API registry functions (RegOpenKey et al.), or create a new
class from the TRegistry
component, and change the new TRegistry class to add an access property.
Regards
Paul McKenzie
Wellington
New Zealand
Phil Scadden wrote:
> I want to detect where current user of program has write access to
> the hkey_local_machine hive. (so I can choose to display the a settings
> option on a menu). Short of attempt a write and then read, is there
another
> way to detect this?
>
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