[Spice-devel] [PATCH] vdagent-win: Assure you set a new HKEY_CURRENT_USER changing user.

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Thu Apr 23 05:45:29 PDT 2015


Hey,

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 08:22:51AM -0400, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER is cached as first profile is loaded. Closing the key
> before setting the token allow the system to set a new HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
> Some informations are readed from this key (like Desktop folder using
> shell APIs).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <fziglio at redhat.com>
> ---
>  vdagent/as_user.cpp | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/vdagent/as_user.cpp b/vdagent/as_user.cpp
> index c8016da..96ecc24 100644
> --- a/vdagent/as_user.cpp
> +++ b/vdagent/as_user.cpp
> @@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ bool AsUser::begin()
>          }
>      }
>  
> +    RegCloseKey(HKEY_CURRENT_USER);
> +

Not sure about that one as we don't seem to be opening that key
ourselves.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa378612%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
mentions RevertToSelf(), maybe this is something that needs to be called
in order to cause HKEY_CURRENT_USER to be reread?

Christophe
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