SYSKEY, TNG freeze, 2.0.x->TNG merge and other thoughts
Todd Sabin
tas at webspan.net
Thu Feb 10 15:11:28 GMT 2000
James Sutherland <jas88 at cam.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > in which case, you have to hold these in directories else it's a mess.
> >
> > see HKLM\SAM\... for details.
>
> Yes, and there are reasons why HKLM\SAM is NOT a directory with up to 100
> 000 files in it - even Macrosoft code isn't THAT inefficient (usually).
> It's a file (registry hive), with access control implemented by the only
> process allowed to access it.
>
As I replied in another message, there _is_ in fact one registry key
(which you can think of as a directory) per user, group, and alias.
And the locking of the registry file is done by the _kernel_ by virtue
of the fact that it's been loaded into the registry hierarchy. _Any_
process can access the data within it (via the registry apis) provided
they have the proper permissions.
Todd
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