Unfortunately, no one has written (well, released, AFAIK) Win32API::Security and the modules I've seen that deal with security don't take the general approach I pushed for with Win32API::* so they don't handle security descriptors directly. For example, some only work on files.

I /have/ found Reg[GS]etKeySecurity() useful in cases, even so. I'd use the GUI to set the desired permissions on a reference key and then just copy those permissions to other keys (such a new keys) via my script.

I'd also use Win32::TieRegistry: 

use Win32::TieRegistry( Delimiter => "/" );
my $sec;
$Registry->{"LMachine/Software/7-Zip/"}->RegGetKeySecurity( 4, $sec, [
+] );

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(Not recommending using "4" over importing the correct definitions from Win32, just being cheap and short for the sake of emphasizing the other aspects of the example.)

- tye        

In reply to Re^2: Win32API::Registry::RegGetKeySecurity how to unpack the structure of $pSecDesc? (misc) by tye
in thread Win32API::Registry::RegGetKeySecurity how to unpack the structure of $pSecDesc? by Sioln

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