On Mar 4, 3:24 pm, News123 <news...@free.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > I habe administrator privilege on a window host and would like to write > a script setting some registry entries for other users.
Why? Are you writing a virus? > > There are potentially at least two wo ways of doing this: > > 1.) start a subprocess as other user and change the regitrey for > CURRENT_USER > > However I don't know how to start a process (or ideally just a thread) > as another user with python. > > 2.) Load the 'hive' of the othe user and chnage the registry. > > It seems, that one has to load the 'hive' of a different user in order > to have access to somebody eleses registry entries. > > I did not find any documetnation of how to load a 'hive' wit the library > _winreg or another python library/ > > Did anybody else try already something similiar? > > thanks in advance for pointers > > bye > > N -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
