"Patrick J. LoPresti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We could modify todo.pl to hook the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\...\Run key > instead, which will cause it to run no matter who logs on next. I am > reluctant to do this, because if the automatic logon gets interrupted > and some random user logs on, the whole process is going to get very > confused. > > But maybe that is not a problem; todo.pl could just exit quietly if > the user is not a local Administrator.
I have implemented this. By default, todo.pl now uses the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run key to invoke itself after reboot (instead of the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\...\Run key). It also bombs out if the user running it does not have administrative privileges. I figure bombing out is better than exiting silently, because really no random users should be logging on in the middle of a todo.pl run anyway. Checking for "administrative privileges" is kind of subtle, since there really isn't any such thing on Windows, at least not as a single concept. I ended up checking for the "Take ownership of files and other objects" privilege, which should be a pretty close approximation. I hope. The old behavior can still be obtained by providing the "--user" switch to todo.pl. I have checked these changes in to CVS. I will be making another pre-release, probably a release candidate, next week. With any luck Microsoft will issue a fix for <http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-099A.html> by then. - Pat ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
