Elevated Privileges

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This is absolutely correct.

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David Thornley
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Luciana Soligo wrote in message <38218126.30DD0300@cost.se>...
>As far as I understand, to run an installation with elevated privileges,
>
>the administrator should define/ allow users and applications to do so.
>Then there 's nothing I can do from the installation point of view to
>run with these
>privileges.
>I mean, if the machine wasn't set for that, I'll be running as the
>normal user.
>
>Is my statement correct??
>
>
>Luciana Soligo
>Entegrity Solutions
>
>

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When you stated that Windows 2000 has an option to run setup as the admin,
are you refering to Windows Installer? I was not aware of this feature if
not. How does it work? Is there an option to enable this feature?

"Stefan Krueger" <@> wrote in message
news:387b62d3.0@news.installshield.com...
> Not with IS6 as far as I know. (you may be able to write code that logs
off
> the current user and automatically logs on as Administrator to run setup
in
> Admin mode, but that would be tedious)
> Windows 2000 will automatically give you the option to run setup as
> Administrator (without having to log off the current user). That's a new
> feature of Win2k that doesn't exist on NT4.
>
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> Stefan Krueger
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> ugfu.tmlra.sika_2 <tmlra.sika_2@bluewin.ch> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
> 387B348E.80A6625D@bluewin.ch...
> > Is it possible to launch an installation with elevated privileges
> > (Administrator rights) without InstallShield for Windows Installer ?
> >
>
>

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I tried this myself. If the user running the install program is not an
administrator equivalent, the OS pops up a dialog asking how to run the
install. I am not sure how the OS knows it is an install program. My guess
is it looks for a *setup* or *install* file name. The dialog allows the user
to enter the username and password to use for running the install program,
or run it as the currently logged in user.

Does anyone know which HKEY_CURRENT_USER is being used during the install if
the user supplies an admin user and password? Will it be the current
non-admin user, or the administrator equivalent user?

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> is it looks for a *setup* or *install* file name. The dialog allows the
user

That's correct.

> Does anyone know which HKEY_CURRENT_USER is being used during the install
if
> the user supplies an admin user and password? Will it be the current
> non-admin user, or the administrator equivalent user?

Not sure, but I assume Administrator.

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The MSI help page "How do I install a package with elevated privileges as a
non-admin?" has details.