I've been using sysprep to create our company image and I thought I had
everything working, but them we came across some problems with certain types
of software app starting. I've found the reg I need to change. I have to
change the users to have full control. This was setup in our original image,
but sysprep seems to reset this back to read.

So is there a way to change the permissions of a key in the registry via a
script. Right now I have a script that runs to remove a couple of icons and
I also change a value of a reg key, but I don't know how to access the
permissions of such keys. I would appreciate any suggestions.

The specific key I'm trying to change is HKLM\Software\Microsoft\MSLicensing.
I want Users (computername\Users) to allow Full Control. Sysprep sets this
to just Read.

"Joe" wrote:

> I've been using sysprep to create our company image and I thought I had
> everything working, but them we came across some problems with certain types
> of software app starting. I've found the reg I need to change. I have to
> change the users to have full control. This was setup in our original image,
> but sysprep seems to reset this back to read.
>
> So is there a way to change the permissions of a key in the registry via a
> script. Right now I have a script that runs to remove a couple of icons and
> I also change a value of a reg key, but I don't know how to access the
> permissions of such keys. I would appreciate any suggestions.
>

"Joe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:006F21A8-8D2E-4F37-ABE7-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I've been using sysprep to create our company image and I thought I had
> everything working, but them we came across some problems with certain
types
> of software app starting. I've found the reg I need to change. I have to
> change the users to have full control. This was setup in our original
image,
> but sysprep seems to reset this back to read.
>
> So is there a way to change the permissions of a key in the registry via a
> script. Right now I have a script that runs to remove a couple of icons
and
> I also change a value of a reg key, but I don't know how to access the
> permissions of such keys. I would appreciate any suggestions.
>

subinacl.exe will do it. It comes with the Windows Resource Kit.
Its syntax is a little hard do understand.

Joe wrote:
> I've been using sysprep to create our company image and I thought I
> had everything working, but them we came across some problems with
> certain types of software app starting. I've found the reg I need to
> change. I have to change the users to have full control. This was
> setup in our original image, but sysprep seems to reset this back to
> read.
>
> So is there a way to change the permissions of a key in the registry
> via a script. Right now I have a script that runs to remove a couple
> of icons and I also change a value of a reg key, but I don't know how
> to access the permissions of such keys. I would appreciate any
> suggestions.

subinacl..
And
setacl..

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
and
http://setacl.sourceforge.net/

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