Re: Liveupdate works only for administrator account

From: Rick L (rlmbox@terra.com.br)
Date: 12/12/02 

From: "Rick L" <rlmbox@terra.com.br>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:26:34 -0800

Thanks Neo,

I appreciate very much your help !
Let me ask you a last question. Is there a friendly
interface to grant user access to the registry ? If not,
which are the command lines to perform that operation ?

Thanks again,
Rick

>-----Original Message-----
>Yes, but that isn't the only section in the registry you
would have to
>touch. Some of the ones that I am familiar with since I
support NAVCE at
>work is...
>
>HKLM/Symantec
>HKLM/Intel
>HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/Defwatch
>HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/NAV*
>HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/Norton Antivirus
Server (or Client)
>HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/SymEvent
>
>Not to mention the above, but you would have to run a
trace on the file
>system and adjust permissions there as well.
>
>Once you made it thru all of the above, there is a strong
possibility that
>Symantec has it hard coded to check the user right
level. If it isn't high
>enough, you still won't have access to the liveupdate
button. Outside of
>that, there are articles posted on Symantec's website
that mention
>Liveudpate isn't supported for anything less that local
administrators.
>
>
>"Rick L" <rlmbox@terra.com.br> wrote in message
>news:092201c2a137$a7aa1510$d7f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA14...
>> I see..
>>
>> OK, liveupdate was already scheduled to be run as
>> administrator account!
>>
>> Is it possible to grant access to Norton/Symantec HKLM
for
>> the users accounts ? If so, I would appreciate if could
>> tell me how to do it.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Rick
>>
>> Obs:
>> No, I am not running NAV CE, it is a desktop edition.
>>
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >This is normal since the liveupdate process touches
many
>> keys in the HKLM
>> >hive and file system where users do not have access to
>> make modifications.
>> >As a suggestion (and hopefully you are running NAV CE
or
>> SAV CE), schedule
>> >your liveupdates.
>> >
>> >"Rick L" <rlmbox@terra.com.br> wrote in message
>> >news:041a01c2a061$0060a200$89f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA01...
>> >> I hope somebody can help me out.
>> >>
>> >> My Norton LiveUpdate only works when I am logged as
>> >> administrator. I am running it under Windows 2000
Pro.
>> >>
>> >> I would like to know how to make it works for other
>> users
>> >> account, as well as make it work automatically after
log
>> >> on.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance,
>> >> Best regards,
>> >> Rick.
>> >>
>> >
>> >.
>> >
>
>.
>

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