[python-win32] Walking the registry and creating reg files

[Dahlstrom, Roger]

Well, like I said, I've never done it in Python, and this is going back a bit, so some things might be different, but I'm not talking about RegSaveKey or RegRestoreKey, I'm talking about using EnumKey and CreateKey.  As far as I can remember, I didn't have any special permissions for that.

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From: python-win32-bounces+rdahlstrom=directedge.com at python.org [mailto:python-win32-bounces+rdahlstrom=directedge.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Tim Roberts
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 1:20 PM
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Subject: Re: [python-win32] Walking the registry and creating reg files

Dahlstrom, Roger wrote:
> ...  Basically what I'm saying is not that you need *no* permissions, just that you don't need any *special* permissions - if you have permission to read it and enumerate the subkeys, that is (at least in my experience, maybe I'm not doing exactly what the request is) sufficient.

Almost.  The RegSaveKey and RegRestoreKey functions, which export and
import entire subtrees, need the SE_BACKUP_NAME privilege.  The
administrator account can get that privilege, but you have to use APIs
to ask for it.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724917.aspx

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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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