On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 08:46:11, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > Nils �stbjerg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 10:32:11, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > > > > > So what happens if you set the "Policies" key in the registry, and > > > then the user tries to change the settings with the GUI? > > > > Well that one is easy to answer. The user cant change the > > setting. It is greyed out. > > Even if the user is a local administrator?
Yes. Policies overrides the other settings. > Which Policies sub-key(s) causes the greying out, exactly? HKLM/SOFTWARE/Policies/Microsoft/Windows/WindowsUpdate/AU/AUOptions As far as I can determin that is the policy that desides if the rest of the policy options takes effect. I'll fiddle a bit more with this to find out more. > > The way Im doing the script it could be made backwards compatible > > with the old key, for the ppl that want that, while provinding > > support for the new key as well. > > Here is how I think this should work. > > 1) Add an "--admin" switch which says to modify the Policies key > instead of the CurrentVersion key. > > 2) If "--admin" is not provided, unset the relevant Policies > subkey(s) to un-grey-out the Control Panel gadget. > > 3) Die with usage instructions if the user tries to configure one of > the new settings without providing the "--admin" key. > > Or maybe we should call it "--policy" instead of "--admin". I'll go for --policy. > > > My biggest problem is that I havent really got any experience with > > perl. I'll try to fiddle with it this weekend. > > If you want to learn some Perl, go for it! Otherwise, if you will > tell me the exact interaction between the keys (in particular, how I > can do the "un-grey-out" part), I would be glad to update the script. I've done a new/clean implementation of a policy based script and that works. It took me a while to figure out how to create new keys, but with a lot of cut'n'paste and fiddling I got that working. I'll start implementing the old way into the script now. Regards, Nils -- Nils �stbjerg mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
