Re: [WiX-users] Get Current User's Credentials in custom action
It sounds like your web service / server supports Negotiate, NTLM or Kerberos, ie. you can just call the service when you're logged in as some user. So now you're installing as that user and need to call the service. I think all you need is Impersonate=true for your CustomAction --- http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/wix_xsd_customaction.htm Impersonate: This attribute specifies whether the Windows Installer, which executes as LocalSystem, should impersonate the user context of the installing user when executing this custom action. Typically the value should be 'yes', except when the custom action needs elevated privileges to apply changes to the machine. --- Someone should confirm whether this is supported in managed CAs. dB. @ dblock.org Moscow|Geneva|Seattle|New York -Original Message- From: Sagar [mailto:sagarkavitak...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 10:27 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Get Current User's Credentials in custom action Hi, I have a managed C# custom action which access a webservice hosted on a machine over a network. Now in this managed custom action i am getting unauthorized access error because anonymous access is disabled on iis of that machine. What i want is to pass the current users credentials to this c# custom action. Now how do i achieve this ? Do i need to ask the user to enter his credentials in UI and then use it in my C# custom action. Or is there any other way to get the current users credentials (domain, username, password). Thanks in advance Sagar -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Get-Current-User-s-Credentials-in-custom-action-tp4818201p4818201.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Get Current User's Credentials in custom action
I generally think it's a bad idea. Why would a local installation affect an existing web server? Why not do it on application startup? dB. @ dblock.org Moscow|Geneva|Seattle|New York -Original Message- From: Sagar [mailto:sagarkavitak...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 1:37 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Get Current User's Credentials in custom action The reason behind calling web-service from msi is that i need to install a file on the webserver rather than just calling copying it on target machine. And the webserver exposes a web-service to do this. Sagar -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Get-Current-User-s-Credentials-in-custom-action-tp4818201p4829184.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Get Current User's Credentials in custom action
Here's the scenario: A limited user called Fred installs the product. It requires admin privilege to install, so an elevation dialog pops up and an administrator enters his credentials so that the install can proceed. Later on in a custom action you ask for the current user's credentials. There are a number of ways you could do that, such as the USERNAME property, or maybe in your custom action code you use some API that returns current user's credentials. What credentials are you going to get? The administrator's or Fred's? Apart from that, there's also the question of whether your custom action needs elevation (so it must run with the local system account). If your managed custom action is DTF, I don't know how that behaves in this environment. All this is the kind of thing that happens when installs try to do too much. Why does the install need to call a web service, and is there some reason why the app can't do it in a normal interactive user environment after the install? Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: Sagar [mailto:sagarkavitak...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 10:20 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Get Current User's Credentials in custom action Phil Wilson, i couldn't get your point. can you explain it in detail. Thanks Sagar Kavitake -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Get-Current-User-s-Credentials-in-custom-action-tp4818201p4822819.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users *** Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any associated or attached files, is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person. This email comes from a division of the Invensys Group, owned by Invensys plc, which is a company registered in England and Wales with its registered office at Portland House, Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5BF (Registered number 166023). For a list of European legal entities within the Invensys Group, please go to http://www.invensys.com/legal/default.asp?top_nav_id=77nav_id=80prev_id=77. You may contact Invensys plc on +44 (0)20 7821 3848 or e-mail inet.hqhelpd...@invensys.com. This e-mail and any attachments thereto may be subject to the terms of any agreements between Invensys (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates) and the recipient (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates). -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Get Current User's Credentials in custom action
The reason behind calling web-service from msi is that i need to install a file on the webserver rather than just calling copying it on target machine. And the webserver exposes a web-service to do this. Sagar -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Get-Current-User-s-Credentials-in-custom-action-tp4818201p4829184.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Get Current User's Credentials in custom action
For username you could try passing the USERNAME or LogonUser property to your custom action (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372385.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369780.aspx). That may also give you the domain but as the MSDN pages don't tell you what the format of those Properties are you might need to do some debugging to check it first. Password you'll need to prompt for, no other way around it. Since you're writing a C# custom action things like domain username should be quite easy to pull in .NET using System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent() rather than having to pass properties from Windows Installer but that's beyond the scope of this discussion list. Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the Virtual Environment** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered in Scotland No. SC151456 Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -Original Message- From: Sagar [mailto:sagarkavitak...@gmail.com] Sent: 29 March 2010 15:27 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Get Current User's Credentials in custom action Hi, I have a managed C# custom action which access a webservice hosted on a machine over a network. Now in this managed custom action i am getting unauthorized access error because anonymous access is disabled on iis of that machine. What i want is to pass the current users credentials to this c# custom action. Now how do i achieve this ? Do i need to ask the user to enter his credentials in UI and then use it in my C# custom action. Or is there any other way to get the current users credentials (domain, username, password). Thanks in advance Sagar -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Get-Current-User-s-Credentials-in-custom-action-tp4 818201p4818201.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Get Current User's Credentials in custom action
There are some edge cases too which may not work. If you're on a UAC system and a non-privileged user starts the install and an administrator enters some over the shoulder administrator credentials I'm not sure what you'd see in a C# custom action with WindowsIdentity. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: Pally Sandher [mailto:pally.sand...@iesve.com] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 8:24 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Get Current User's Credentials in custom action For username you could try passing the USERNAME or LogonUser property to your custom action (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372385.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369780.aspx). That may also give you the domain but as the MSDN pages don't tell you what the format of those Properties are you might need to do some debugging to check it first. Password you'll need to prompt for, no other way around it. Since you're writing a C# custom action things like domain username should be quite easy to pull in .NET using System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent() rather than having to pass properties from Windows Installer but that's beyond the scope of this discussion list. Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the Virtual Environment** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered in Scotland No. SC151456 Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -Original Message- From: Sagar [mailto:sagarkavitak...@gmail.com] Sent: 29 March 2010 15:27 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Get Current User's Credentials in custom action Hi, I have a managed C# custom action which access a webservice hosted on a machine over a network. Now in this managed custom action i am getting unauthorized access error because anonymous access is disabled on iis of that machine. What i want is to pass the current users credentials to this c# custom action. Now how do i achieve this ? Do i need to ask the user to enter his credentials in UI and then use it in my C# custom action. Or is there any other way to get the current users credentials (domain, username, password). Thanks in advance Sagar -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Get-Current-User-s-Credentials-in-custom-action-tp4 818201p4818201.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users *** Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any associated or attached files, is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person. This email comes from a division of the Invensys Group, owned by Invensys plc, which is a company registered in England and Wales with its registered office at Portland House, Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5BF (Registered number 166023). For a list of European legal entities within the Invensys Group, please go to http://www.invensys.com/legal/default.asp?top_nav_id=77nav_id=80prev_id=77. You may contact Invensys plc on +44 (0)20 7821 3848 or e-mail inet.hqhelpd...@invensys.com. This e-mail and any attachments thereto may be subject to the terms of any agreements between Invensys (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates) and the recipient (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates). -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively
Re: [WiX-users] Get Current User's Credentials in custom action
Phil Wilson, i couldn't get your point. can you explain it in detail. Thanks Sagar Kavitake -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Get-Current-User-s-Credentials-in-custom-action-tp4818201p4822819.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
