Re: [WiX-users] Meaning of Light's -sacl?
The only time I have seen is in a locked down corporate environment when I only have Modify rights to a share. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited n...@x2systems.com mailto:n...@x2systems.com From: Nick Ramirez [mailto:nickra...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thu 12/08/2010 21:30 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Meaning of Light's -sacl? Thanks Neil. I've been trying out different scenarios with sending the output of my MSI build to a network share and viewing the permissions of the MSI. But I must be missing something. Do you have an example of the permissions problem? -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Meaning-of-Light-s-sacl-tp5416423p5417732.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Meaning of Light's -sacl?
Can anyone tell me when you would use Light's -sacl flag? I found this post: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/LGHT1032-Unable-to-reset-acls-on-destination-files-td689045.html#a689046 but I don't understand it. Is this flag used when sending the output of a WiX build to a network share? -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Meaning-of-Light-s-sacl-tp5416423p5416423.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Meaning of Light's -sacl?
If you are building on a network drive you will often find it can't set permissions on the file when it finishes building. I have to say I am not sure why it needs to reset permissions. Neil Neil Sleightholm n...@x2systems.com On 12 Aug 2010, at 16:08, Nick Ramirez nickra...@hotmail.com wrote: Can anyone tell me when you would use Light's -sacl flag? I found this post: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/LGHT1032-Unable-to-reset-acls-on-destination-files-td689045.html#a689046 but I don't understand it. Is this flag used when sending the output of a WiX build to a network share? -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Meaning-of-Light-s-sacl-tp5416423p5416423.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Meaning of Light's -sacl?
Thanks Neil. I've been trying out different scenarios with sending the output of my MSI build to a network share and viewing the permissions of the MSI. But I must be missing something. Do you have an example of the permissions problem? -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Meaning-of-Light-s-sacl-tp5416423p5417732.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Meaning of Light's -sacl?
Okay. Now I see what you mean. I can see how the -sacl flag affects the output MSI. I followed these steps: 1. Create a folder to send the output of the build to, call it something like Output 2. Set the permissions on that folder to not inherit their permissions from the parent folder and then set some restrictive permissions, like giving only Read access to the System user 3. Build the MSI and output it to that folder 4. Check the MSI's permissions. Without the -sacl flag, it should have picked up the restrictive permissions of the Output folder 5. Add the -sacl flag and rebuild. Now, the output MSI has unrestricted privileges because Light needs that to copy/move files around during the binding phase. -sacl means that instead of returning things back to normal when it's done, Light skips that step and the file ends up keeping the unrestricted permissions I suppose one might use -sacl when the permissions on the output folder (maybe a network share) are way too restrictive? -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Meaning-of-Light-s-sacl-tp5416423p5418654.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
