Recently I found the RSOP_* (Resultant Set of Policies) set of functions and WMI Classes. It seems to be new with .NET server and Windows XP but the seem to run somewhat on Windows 2000. The information you want access to appears to be stored in the RSOP_SecuritySettingBoolean WMI/WBEM class. You can use perl to access WMI so there might be a way to do perl->Win32::OLE->WMI to access the information you require.

I was trying to get some perl code to post but I haven't been able to. Let me know how it goes!

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