As I understand it: the intent for that flag is to use it in environments where leaving the flag off produces build failures. Normally the output directory should have permissions that allows full control for the user running light and whatever other permissions are needed to administer the build output and control its distribution (full for those processes that manage the build drop, read access for those that need access, no access for everyone else).
That flag shouldn't ever be needed under normal circumstances. -----Original Message----- From: Nick Ramirez [mailto:nickra...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 7:47 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: 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-Lig ht-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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
