Getting security information for remote registry keys?

Question

According to the documentation for API function GetNamedSecurityInfo, it can get information from the following objects:

• Local or remote files or directories on an NTFS file system
• Local or remote printers
• Local or remote Windows services
• Network shares
• Registry keys
• Semaphores, events, mutexes, and waitable timers
• File-mapping objects
• Directory service objects

But what I need is to get information from a registry key on a remote computer. Can GetNamedSecurityInfo obtain that somehow?

Answer 1

Sure it can. Just pass the name of the key.

\\ComputerName\CLASSES_ROOT\SomePath

Format of object names are described in the documentation for SE_OBJECT_TYPE enumeration. Note that there are some caveats related to authentication/authorization, read the documentation for RegConnectRegistry as well.