How about a "preferences" file in %Users%\AppData...? The installer would apply whatever basic choices during install (%defaultUser%\AppData). Then a user could set his personal preferences which WinGUI would save to %Users%\AppData.
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 25, 2016, at 8:39 AM, Selva Nair <selva.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 09:38:31AM -0500, Selva Nair wrote: >> > Even if the GUI cjecks HKLM and HKCU, toggling the option will not work as >> > the GUI cannot reset HKLM values. We do not want to be requiring admin >> > rights to run the GUI and that option becomes "readonly" for the user if >> > startup is set in HKLM. >> >> How do other packagages handle "this is the system default, but users >> can change their own setting"? (So the admin could say "I want this started >> by default, for all users" and individual users can uncheck this "leave >> me alone!") >> >> Just thinking aloud, no idea how much effort this is, and whether it's >> a useful consideration in the first place. > > The installer could enumerate all users and adds the setting to their HKCU's. > But its not perfect as new users will not get the setting. > > A more sophisticated approach is to use the "active-setup" feature. I have > never used it but its supposed to work like this: > > Installer adds a reg key > "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed > Components\OpenVPNUserSetup" with two values: > Version = "2.4.1" <-- update this every install > StubPath = "some_cmd" <-- see below > > When the user logs system will check the value of Version and if new, will > execute "some_cmd". So we can set som_cmd to just add teh required reg-key in > HKCU like this: > > reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run /v > "OPENVPN-GUI" /d "path_to_openvpn_gui" /t REG_SZ /f" > > I haven't tested it. For more details see: > https://helgeklein.com/blog/2010/04/active-setup-explained/ or google active > setup. > > Selva > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Openvpn-devel mailing list > Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel
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