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Miscellaneous information

Simplified site creation on first connection

In order to do any meaningful work in {hvui}, a user must be using a site.

To make it easier to get started using hvui, the first time a user connects to the Hex-Rays Vault server, the application will propose a a simplified site creation dialog, that will query only the "root directory".

The rest of the site attributes will be guessed (or generated):

  • the host name will be retrieved automatically from the system
  • the user name is known since the user just logged in
  • the site name will be generated from the user name + host name

It is of course still possible to alter that site later, through the "Sites" widget.

Technical information

HVUI stores certain bits of information in the registry:

  • On Windows, this will be located under \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Hex-Rays\HVUI
  • On Unix systems, HVUI will use a file-backed registry, located at $HOME/.idapro/hvui.reg