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Thread: Accessing the registry with Win32::TieRegistry on XP as std user not working
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Win32::TieRegistry on XP as std user not
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2006-04-19 22:00:43 |
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I found this on
Google: listserv.activestate.com/msg34839.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/perl-win32-users listserv.activestate.com/msg34839.html
From: Timothy
Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006
2:53 PM
To: 'Castle, Eric';
perl-win32-adminlistserv.ActiveState.com
Subject: RE: Accessing the
registry with Win32::TieRegistry on XP as std user not working
Have
you tried using the Open function instead of $Registry? I suspect that
$Registry may be using remote registry semantics to access the registry, and
that may be why regular users wouldnR17;t have access. Maybe if you
use the Open function to open the key directly you might be able to access it
“locallyR21;.
In preparation for the Vista OS
release, I am testing out how our perl scripts work when running as a
standard user on Windows XP SP2. This user has no power user or admin
permissions.
So far when I try to access the
registry ( using Win32::TieRegistry) I get an error - the same error that I
would get if the registry key did not exist. I tried using perl 5.6.1 and 5.8
and it behaves the same in both. ; If running the same script as a
user with power user or admin priveldges, the scripts work fine and have no
problems accessing the registry.
Other (non-perl) applications
running as std user are able to access the registry just fine (don't know if
they can alter it but they can at least read it).
The registry key I was accessing was
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ActiveState\
The error message I get back in $^E
is: "The system could not find the environment option that was
entered". Here is a sample script I used to test out the
problem:
my $reg_key =
$Registry->{"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\ActiveState\\"}
or $error = "ERROR: Can't access registry key because, $^E\n";;
print "error was
\";$error\"\n";
Has anyone else run into this? ;
I'm gonna do a search through MSDN also and see this has come up.
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