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Re: [Condor-users] Writing to HKEY_CURRENT_USERwhen running jobson Windows
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 13:41:35 -0400
- From: "Ian Chesal" <ICHESAL@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Condor-users] Writing to HKEY_CURRENT_USERwhen running jobson Windows
> It looks as if we have the go ahead on this, so this will feature will
be
> added on a per-job basis in a future release of Condor.
Thanks! And great that it's a per-job attribute instead of a per-machine
attribute.
> In the mean time, if you need write access to the user part of the
> registry,
> you might also try forcing the profile to be loaded by first login in
some
> user using the runas.exe command's /profile flag (which is set by
> default).
> The caveat to this, is that the runas.exe will require some
interaction
> (i.e. entering the selected user's password), but I believe this can
be
> overcome with an expect script (http://expect.nist.gov/#windows).
There
> were some other ideas I had, but this is by far the least hack'ish of
the
> lot, and the simplest. If this does not fit your needs, let me know
and
> we
> can explore some other avenues.
I'll take a look at expect. We might be able to work around the problem
with this approach. When I get a solution in place I'll reply to the
list with the final approach I ended up taking.
- Ian