I wonder if there is a way to find a local user's registry key in HKEY_USERS if you know the login-name of that user on the local machine. I want to programmatically add stuff to a specific user's registry keys (Autorun for example), but I only know the username. How can I determine which of the cryptic users in HKEY_USERS actually belongs to a specific username?
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I have a Windows 2008 server that I'm working on, so my answer is not completely the same as what the OP has on a Windows 2003 server.
Here is what I did (recording this here so I can find it later).
I was having this same issue:
In my Web.config file, I had this section:
<system.web>
<authentication mode="Windows" />
<authorization>
<allow users="*" />
<deny users="?" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
Under IIS, all of these seems to be solved under the Authentication icon.
- Edit Permissions: Make sure your ASP.NET account has permission. Mine was not originally added.
Now go into the features of Authentication:
Enable Anonymous Authentication with the IUSR:
Enable Windows Authentication, then Right-Click to set the Providers.
NTLM needs to be FIRST!
Next, check that under Advanced Settings... the Extended Protection is Accept and Enable Kernel-mode authentication is CHECKED:
Once I did this, I went back to my web application, clicked the Browse link, and logged in without having to provide my credentials again.
I hope this proves beneficial to many of you, and I hope it is useful for me later as well.
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The above snippet gives you the SID of the logged-in user. This when appended to the HKEY_USERS givs you the right path for that username.