Setting Permissions on Resitry Value

[GinormousV]

I have a need to programatically set permissions on a specific registry
value (not the whole key). While regedt32 will let me set permissions
on specific values, this does me no good as I have to do this on 4000
machines? Does anyone know of any good command line utilities or
scripts that will let me set permissions on a specific registry value/

 

[Guest]

In your case setting permissions using group policies seems the easiest way.
If you want to script it you should be able to access registry permissions
using ADSI.

 

[GinormousV]

Thanks for the tips. I did try group policy but it does not seem to
let me apply permissions to a specific value inside of a key. ADSI
might be a way to do it, but I'm not all that familiar. Can you point
me to a good resource?

 

[Guest]

How about this:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/security/default.mspx

If you want a good intro on ADSI the "Windows 2000 Scripting Guide" (look in
the "Script Center" part of TechNet) is still excellent (well, in my opinion
that is).