It's not Wix as much as it is that Windows Installer property names are
case-sensitive (one of the reasons being that all uppercase means that
it's a public property).
Phil Wilson
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Ness
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 11:04 AM
To: Rob Mensching; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Question about logging from a WIX install
That actually does help, and what I have learned is that case
sensitivity is the issue here. If, on my install, I have
"mydomainname=domain\account" (and provided I make the change that Rob
suggested below), I will see the command line. But if I have it
"MYDOMAINNAME=domain\account", the value will be appropriately hidden.
Why is WIX so inconsistent about case sensitivity? In my example above,
the wrong case screws up whether or not MYDOMAINNAME is hidden or not.
But passing in lowercase certainly does work internally (the value for
the variable is set properly). That seems wrong.
Andy
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From: Rob Mensching
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 3:06 PM
To: Andy Ness; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: Question about logging from a WIX install
My only guess would be to do something like:
<Property Id="MYDOMAINPASSWORD" Hidden="yes" />
That may or may not work for command-line properties.
From: Andy Ness
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 10:25 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net; Rob Mensching; Justin Rockwood
Subject: Question about logging from a WIX install
I have an MSI file created via WIX. In there, I install some services.
For these services, I need a domain account name and password. This
information is passed in to my MSI via the command line of MSIEXEC (egg.
"msiexec /qn /I MyInstall.msi /L*vx c:\install.log
MYDOMAINNAME=domain\account MYDOMAINPASSWORD=MyPassword").
In the log file, I want to hide instances of the password. I have found
I can do that by making sure the property is hidden, and by using the
"HideTarget='Yes'" tag on my CustomAction (when I look in the
install.log file at the point where the custom action is being run, the
password is correctly hidden). The problem is, very much near the top
of my install.log file is the full command line. It says "Command Line:
MYDOMAINNAME=domain\account MYDOMAINPASSWORD=MyPassword". Well, this
somewhat defeats the purpose of trying to hide this information.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how the command line can be truly
hidden in the log files?
Thanks,
Andy
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