Yeah, that documentation is pretty bad. Feel free to file a bug. I'm not even sure what it is trying to say.
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 6:43 AM, <keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca> wrote: > Following up on my own previous post, > > The description of Permission has this line in the documentation: > > GenericRead YesNoType specifying this will fail to grant read > access > > What does that description mean? The name suggests that I can grant > GenericRead and that will grant, well, "Read" in the sense of the security > tab of the properties pane on a file, but ... "fail to grant"?? What does > "specifying" mean? What permissions do I grant to allow a group or user to > *just* read a static configuration file? I've determined through > experimentation that (1) below is not enough, and that (2) *is* that using > Permission overrides everything else and that (3) yes, you can use a group, > so I suppose I don't need that information still ... > > > > Keith Douglas > Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 > Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 > keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca > Telephone | Téléphone 613-951-4405 > Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-951-1966 > Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Douglas, Keith - CoSD/DSCo > Sent: March-01-13 3:40 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Permission > > (1) If I grant Read, ReadAttributes, ReadExtendedAttributes to two users > based on a Permission element, what permissions do other users have? > (2) Are the permissions exhaustive for those users? If not, how do I clear > write access? Do I somehow have to use an explicit deny? > (3) Can the User attribute be used with a local group as the value of the > parameter instead? > > Finally, is the section in the Wix 3.5 documentation wrong on the > difference between Permission and Util:PermissionEx? Or is the otherwise > excellent book by Nick Ramirez wrong? The latter seems to describe > Permission when talking about Utils:PermissionEx if the built in docs are > to be believed. > > > > Keith Douglas > Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 > Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 > keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Telephone | Téléphone 613-951-4405 Facsimile > | Télécopieur 613-951-1966 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
