Re: [Condor-users] Writing to HKEY_CURRENT_USER when running jobson Windows

["Ian Chesal" <ICHESAL@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ben, thanks for the response.

> You are correct in that Condor can run under specific accounts;
however,
> currently, Condor does not load profiles for these accounts.  What
this
> means is that the HKEY_CURRENT_USER is also not loaded, which is why
> you're writes have been failing.

Any chance this could be an optional decision? So if I wanted the
profile loaded by Condor I could ask for it? Could you wipe the profile
after the job completed as well so it always started clean for the next
job?

> As an alternative to granting full administrative permissions to the 
> Condor user, you might consider adding a new sub-key to the
> "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Condor" key (or a place of your choice).
> Then, using regedit (or regedt32 on Win2K/XP--MS seems to have finally
> integrated them into one in Vista) set the registry key's access
> permissions such that the Condor user can have the access to it you
> wanted (by right clicking on it and selecting "Permissions..."--this
> can also be done remotely and can also be automated, in case you have
> more machines that you care to do by hand).  Finally, you can use
> the scheduler to remove the data once it is not needed (via some
> expire date key, or the like).

Thanks for the idea. I'll see what I can do to this end. Part of the
problem is Cygwin is involved here -- a custom version of Cygwin that we
ship with our CAD tool that includes a modified gcc that can produce
code for our soft core IP. It's all terribly complicated. Cygwin really
wants to write mount points to both HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER. It's a shame it can't be told to use some file-based
registry mimic when it's running in a restricted account.

- Ian