> > You should be able to set the impersonation appropriately to launch > your exe as the user. > > Are you sure WiX can do this? When I was searching for a solution > before I came across this: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2206646/create-a-process-with- > ordinary-rights-from-an-administrator-process > Basically people say that it can be done through the scheduler service > (which may be disabled), through piggybacking on Explorer (which may > not be running) or some other hacky way. Because of the hacky nature of > the solutions I am concerned if WiX has found a good way to do this.
The <CustomAction/> element has an Impersonate attribute. The valid values are "yes" and "no". When you use Impersonate="no" the custom action is executed as an account that has rights to modify the system. These custom actions should be scheduled between InstallInitialize and InstallFinalize and probably needs to be deferred so it executes in the privileged process. When you use Impersonate="yes" the custom action is executed as the user that started the MSI package. If you want to start an EXE at the end of the installer (and not fail the installer causing a rollback) then you should schedule that custom action _after_ InstallFinalize (after the install transaction has closed). There's a client component and server component to a Windows Installer install. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rflaming/archive/2006/09/21/765452.aspx does a reasonable job of explaining the sequence with pretty pictures. Edwin G. Castro Software Developer - Staff Electronic Banking Services Fiserv Office: 503-746-0643 Fax: 503-617-0291 www.fiserv.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
