Mensanator wrote: > On Mar 4, 3:24 pm, News123 <news...@free.fr> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have 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? > Writing a virus in python???? Why not? though I didn't think about it as ideal choice of implementing viruses. For my script to run I have to run it explicitly as administrator (as being required by Vista / Win7).
My script shall be part of installing and configuring a PC with some default settings with the minimal amount of human administrator interactions. The steps: - install windows - install python - setup one admin account and one or more user accounts (without admin privileges) - run a script, that preconfigures registry settings for some users. As mentioned before I see at least two possible ways and achieving this but lack information for either. 1.) run a sub process or thread as another user (the user wouldn't even have a password during the installation phase) and change the registry from this thread. I have no experience of running 'suid' under windows. 2.) being able to load the 'hive' of another user into the registry and be therefore able to change his settings. I didn't find a function allowing _winreg to load additional 'hives' bye N -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
