Bugs item #600952, was opened at 2002-08-27 21:49
Message generated for change (Comment added) made by theller
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Category: Distutils
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Phil Rittenhouse (prittenh)
Assigned to: Thomas Heller (theller)
Summary: Installing w/o admin generates key error
Initial Comment:
I encountered the following problem when trying to
install a package I had generated with distutils
(Python 2.2 on Win2k, logged in as a user without
adminstrative priveleges):
When the installer was run, it would go through the
steps nicely, but towards the end, it generated two
errors:
"Could not open key
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Unins
tall"
"Could not create key dsp-py2.1"
At first I thought the problem might be the result
of installing Python as Administrator, and the
package as just a user, so I re-installed Python as a
user, but I still got the same error. I ran my test on
Win2K with both Python 2.1 and 2.2, and I always
got the same result.
I tracked the code generating the error to install.c in
distutils-1.0.2/misc (see below). I did some
digging and it appears that to use
KEY_ALL_ACCESS, the code must be running
with Administrator privileges. I checked the CVS
archives to see if KEY_ALL_ACCESS is
still being used, and it is.
I made the following changes to install.c (from
Distutils 1.0.2), recompiled, and it works now.
796c796
< KEY_CREATE_SUB_KEY,
---
> KEY_ALL_ACCESS,
806c806
< KEY_WRITE,
---
> KEY_ALL_ACCESS,
1177c1177
< KEY_WRITE,
---
> KEY_ALL_ACCESS,
1208c1208
< KEY_WRITE,
---
> KEY_ALL_ACCESS,
I chose KEY_CREATE_SUB_KEY for the open, since
that is the only operation that will be performed
on it. For the new key itself, I chose KEY_WRITE,
since that was also the minimal operation. While I
was at it, I changed the code for deleting the
registry key and value to also use the minimal
KEY_WRITE. The last two changes allowed the
uninstaller to work properly when run as a normal
user.
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>Comment By: Thomas Heller (theller)
Date: 2004-12-22 16:54
Message:
Logged In: YES
user_id=11105
I believe this is long fixed.
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