Remote registry access

["Leon North" <leon_nc () linuxmail org>]

Apologies if this has been asked before, but if so doesn't seem to be recent so might be of interest to others also.

I have a personal preference question on allowing remote registry access. Basically in Win2k up you can prevent not 
only anonymous registry access but in fact any remote registry access- seemingly a good idea as part of system lockdown 
procedures. However the draw-back of this approach is it will break many vulnerability/patch management scanners which 
rely on the ability to do this, and at a minimum means the results returned are unreliable or missing vital information.

Bearing this in mind, I am interested to know which way the community in general has decided to go with this dilemma- 
block remote registry access for higher system security or allow for improved security management?

Leon
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