Command failed: Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator. #56
Description
I am having lots of errors on Windows (App not loading properly) and after some digging, the error happens to be from this library that relies on running regedit in the background.
If I run this code:
const machine = require('node-machine-id');
machine.machineId().then((id) => {
console.log(id);
}).catch((err) => {
console.log(err);
})
I get the following error on Windows:
C:\Users\j\machineId> node index.js
Error: Error while obtaining machine id: Error: Command failed: %windir%\System32\REG.exe QUERY HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography /v MachineGuid
ERROR: Registry editing has been disabled by your administrator.
at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:308:12)
at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:314:20)
at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1021:16)
at Socket.<anonymous> (internal/child_process.js:443:11)
at Socket.emit (events.js:314:20)
at Pipe.<anonymous> (net.js:676:12)
at C:\Users\j\machineId\node_modules\node-machine-id\dist\index.js:1:7964
at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:315:5)
at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:314:20)
at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1021:16)
at Socket.<anonymous> (internal/child_process.js:443:11)
at Socket.emit (events.js:314:20)
at Pipe.<anonymous> (net.js:676:12)
The error hints that this user does not have admin privileges to run regedit, thus is unable to obtain the unique machine ID. Is there a way of resolving this issue?
Also, thank you for building this library!