Wilson, Phil wrote:
That's the whole point
really. The general issue is that many custom actions are arguably
incorrect because to access secure parts of the system they run with
the installing user's privilege, who was therefore required to be
privileged. The "right" thing is to ru
vilege.
Phil Wilson
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ArnsonSent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 7:39 PMTo:
Chesong LeeCc: WiX-users; Dana GutrideSubject: Re:
[WiX-users] Elevating custom action on Vista
Chesong Lee wrote:
As for Windows Vista,
Dana Gutride wrote:
> We're using ADSI and COM to access the IIS metabase to read those
> values. If there is a way to do that with the registry as an
> unelevated user, please let me know as I certainly prefer using
> registry searches over custom actions and I wasn't aware that those
> value
Chesong Lee wrote:
As for
Windows Vista, in most cases if
custom actions are involved, regardless of “Elevation is allowed for
MSI
installation in Group Policy”, UAC dialog should appear and MSI process
should have as much privileges as the logon user has.
But only
: Wednesday, September 06, 2006
2:36 PM
To: WiX-users
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Elevating
custom action on Vista
We're using ADSI and COM
to access the IIS metabase to read those values. If there is a way to do
that with the registry as an unelevated user, please let me know as I certainly
p
We're using ADSI and COM to access the IIS metabase to read those values. If there is a way to do that with the registry as an unelevated user, please let me know as I certainly prefer using registry searches over custom actions and I wasn't aware that those values are also stored in the registry.
I'm using a custom action to detect the presence of an installed SSL Cert in IIS and also to retrieve the port number of the default web site.DanaOn 9/6/06,
Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Dana Gutride wrote:
> Is it possible to elevate a custom action that is called during the UI> sequence
Dana Gutride wrote:
> Is it possible to elevate a custom action that is called during the UI
> sequence in Vista? During my install, I'm doing prerequisite checks
> during the UI sequence, a couple of them require administrative
> privileges to complete. I'm seeing some mixed information onlin
Is it possible to elevate a custom action that is called during the UI sequence in Vista? During my install, I'm doing prerequisite checks during the UI sequence, a couple of them require administrative privileges to complete. I'm seeing some mixed information online about this. This link (
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