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From: "Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>
To: "William S Fulton" <wf AT fultondesigns DOT co DOT uk>,
   "Cygwin AT Cygwin DOT Com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Read access to all keys in /proc/registry
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:52:58 +0100
Message-ID: <ICEBIHGCEJIPLNMBNCMKCEKDCIAA.chris@atomice.net>
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> find /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/
> 
> does not go down the /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE 
> directory(key)
> because there is no read access for people outside of the SYSTEM group:
> 
> $ ls -la /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/
> total 0
> dr-xr-xr--    5 Administ SYSTEM          0 Jul 10 08:50 .
> dr-xr-xr-x    9 0        0               0 Jul 10 13:03 ..
> dr-xr-xr--    4 Administ SYSTEM          0 Jul 10 08:50 HARDWARE
> dr-xr-xr--    1 Administ SYSTEM          0 Mar 15  2001 SAM
> dr-xr-xr-x    1 0        0               0 Jul 10 13:03 SECURITY
> dr-xr-x---   65 Administ SYSTEM          0 Mar 15  2001 SOFTWARE
> dr-xr-x---    6 Administ SYSTEM          0 Mar 15  2001 SYSTEM
> 
> The SYSTEM group is not a normal Windows group, so how can I add 
> myself to the 
> SYSTEM group (Cygwin doesn't provide the usual Linux group commands e.g. 
> usermod, newgrp). Otherwise, how can I modify the permissions for 
> read access to 
> others so that the find command goes down the SOFTWARE directory?
1. Can you access the key using ls?
2. Can you access the key in regedit?
3. Are you running as an Administrator?

Chris


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