[Tutor] Need help with registry access

[Lie Ryan]

spir wrote:
> Le Fri, 8 May 2009 01:20:32 +0100,
> "Alan Gauld" <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> s'exprima ainsi:
> 
>> "Christopher Barkley" <expression1987 at comcast.net> wrote 
>>
>>> My friend and I are techies, he's on my LAN. I want to disable 
>>> his keyboard through the registry (or some other fun way) 
>>> while he's in the middle of playing starcraft by running a 
>>> script through the LAN. 
> 
>> Look at the winreg module for accessing the registry.
>>
>> How you do it over the LAN and how you disable the keyboard 
>> I'll leave as an exercise for your investigation!
>>
>> One other option is to look into using WSH via the pythonwin 
>> or ctypes API.
>>
> 
> If he can do that, I'm really happy not to be a windozista!
> 

It is trivial if he can get physical access to the computer and can 
install a software that will listen to a certain port to hear when to 
shut off the keyboard. Well, if you can get physical access to the 
computer, pretty much anything is possible...