wineserver: Added support for read/only Registry, similar to unprivileged users (try 2)

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Mon Nov 30 08:02:03 CST 2009


Paul Chitescu <paulc at voip.null.ro> writes:

> Changelog:
>         wineserver: Added support for read/only Registry, similar to 
> unprivileged users
>
> Rationale:
>         This is a first step towards implementing shared wine prefixes with 
> most users being unprivileged and a single Administrator (power user, etc.) 
> capable of installing programs.

I don't think it's a step in the right direction. What you need is
proper access control with security descriptors, like we have for other
objects. A single read-only bit cannot be extended to support this.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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