My use case for this is that I am delivering a per-machine app in an MSI.
I want to allow the user to run this per-machine .exe (that gets installed
wherever they put it) without getting an elevation prompt. My proposal is
to "register" this .exe with the engine at compile time (the
ApprovedExeForElevation element), so that the BA can tell the engine to run
it at runtime. Is this what you're calling an arbitrary process -
something that's not in the chain? If so, then we should just close this
feature request. There's already ways to get the engine to run arbitrary
exe's by putting them in the chain and doing a separate detect/plan/apply
cycle.
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> wrote:
> On 03-May-14 14:59, Sean Hall wrote:
>
> I wrote a
> WIP<http://wixtoolset.org/development/wips/3249-allow-ba-to-run-elevated-aync-process-through-engine/>
> to
> implement feature 3249 <http://wixtoolset.org/issues/3249/>. Before I
> start coding it up, I'd like to get some feedback about it and whether it
> would be accepted into the toolset.
>
>
> I don't think the BA should be able to execute arbitrary processes with
> elevation. Keeping the BA from being a dumping ground of per-machine hacks
> is a Good Thing(tm). I like your #3 footnote -- maybe a component GUID
> would do? But I think it needs to be in the chain.
>
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