Hi all, welcome back,

Today I'll show how we can set the following permissions on a registry key with RegIni.exe and a VBScript:

- Creator Owner Full Control
- Users Full Control
- Power Users Full Control
- Administrators Full Control
- System Full Control

I will set the permissions here for testing purposes:

- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AlejaCMaTypelib
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\AlejaCMaCo\AlejaCMaApp

And for that I will need to create a special regini.exe script which will have the following contents:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\AlejaCMaTypelib [1 5 7 11 17]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\AlejaCMaCo\AlejaCMaApp [1 5 7 11 17]

Notes:
- With regini.exe I won't be able to set Users Full Control, but Everyone Full Control.
- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT = HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes

See the following articles for details on the values used in the regini script:
- How to Use Regini.exe to Set Permissions on Registry Keys
- How to: Use a Script to Change Registry Permissions from the Command Line

And here you have the VBScript that will use regini.exe and its script:

' Create temp file with the script that regini.exe will use

'

set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

strFileName = oFSO.GetTempName

set oFile = oFSO.CreateTextFile(strFileName)

oFile.WriteLine "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\AlejaCMaTypelib [1 5 7 11 17]"

oFile.WriteLine "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\AlejaCMaCo\AlejaCMaApp [1 5 7 11 17]"

oFile.Close

' Change registry permissions with regini.exe

'

set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

oShell.Run "regini " & strFileName, 8, true
' Delete temp file

'

oFSO.DeleteFile strFileName
WScript.Echo "Done!"

I hope it helps.

Cheers,

Alex (Alejandro Campos Magencio)