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bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today
From: |
Lennart Borgman (gmail) |
Subject: |
bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today |
Date: |
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:30:27 +0200 |
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Francis Litterio wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>>> From: Francis Litterio
>
>>> If this solution is implemented, keep in mind that there is a Group
>>> Policy setting called "System objects: default owner for objects created
>>> by members of Administrators group" which can be set to either
>>> "Administrators group" or "Object creator". If it is set to the latter
>>> value, then newly-created files are owned by the user not the group.
>> Thanks. Do you know which API can be used to find out
>> programmatically whether this setting is one or the other?
>
> You had to ask. :) Some hours of Googling and reading bad MS
> documentation reveals that Windows sets the following registry value to
> 0 or 1 to reflect that particular policy:
>
> Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
> Value: NoDefaultAdminOwner
>
> If it is 0, then new files created by members of Local Administrators
> are owned by the group, otherwise they are owned by the user.
Is this the recommended way to check it? Quite often I have seen people
on Internet claiming that you should look for a registry value when the
documentation from MS clearly say you should use an API instead.
> Some caveats:
>
> 1. I think that changing this value may have no effect on a machine in a
> domain with restrictive domain policies, but that doesn't affect
> Emacs, which would only read it.
>
> 2. This value might not exist in the registry on Windows versions prior
> to Windows XP. That may be a bigger issue for Emacs.
>
> Hope this helps.
> --
> Fran
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- bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today, (continued)
- bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today, Jason Rumney, 2008/09/04
- bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/09/04
- bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/09/04
- bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/09/05
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- bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today, Francis Litterio, 2008/09/05
- bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/09/05
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- bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today, Francis Litterio, 2008/09/05
- bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today,
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- Message not available
- bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today, Francis Litterio, 2008/09/05
- bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/09/06