Re: [WiX-users] COM+ Application Setup Identity Problem

2010-03-03 Thread pratikmehta9
Hi, ยท I am making an installer and I want to register and Install Com+ application and set the Identity to the Local System. I wrote the following code in my custom action for setting the identity. but It didn't work(It puts "nt authority\system" in the user field

Re: [WiX-users] COM+ Application Setup Identity Problem

2007-10-22 Thread Richard
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Mike Dimmick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Richard is right that Local System is far too privileged. You should > consider using Local Service, if you don't need network credentials, or > Network Service (authenticates as the machine account in the domain),

Re: [WiX-users] COM+ Application Setup Identity Problem

2007-10-22 Thread Mike Dimmick
After a long pile of digging through the source, I have discovered that the COM+ custom actions basically just manipulate members of the ICatalogObject interface. So, when you specify the Identity attribute, that sets the Identity property of the Application object in the Applications collection by

Re: [WiX-users] COM+ Application Setup Identity Problem

2007-10-22 Thread Richard
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm using WiX and the pca extensions to install a COM+ Application and would > like to set the COM+ Application to run under the 'Local System' identity. Are you sure about that? Running as Local System is almost always a security