Re: [WiX-users] DTF managed custom action - temporary file

2013-11-27 Thread Rob Mensching
Hmm, off the top of my head that sounds like you'll expose a security vulnerability doing that. Unelevated data being passed to elevated process. You'll also want to pass a hash or something to verify the file is the correct file on the elevated (deferred) side. -Original Message- From:

Re: [WiX-users] DTF managed custom action - temporary file

2013-11-26 Thread Blair Murri
property were it is safe. -Blair > From: chr...@iswix.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 11:17:05 -0800 > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] DTF managed custom action - temporary file > > > > Here's another app

Re: [WiX-users] DTF managed custom action - temporary file

2013-11-26 Thread Blair Murri
0 > From: phildgwil...@gmail.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] DTF managed custom action - temporary file > > If the users are different so is the temp location. The immediate CA gets > the user's temp path, the system account (no impersonation

Re: [WiX-users] DTF managed custom action - temporary file

2013-11-26 Thread Christopher Painter
Here's another approach to consider: http://blog.iswix.com/2011/10/beam-me-up-using-json-to-serialize.html From: "Jens Teutenberg" Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 12:54 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] DTF managed custom a

Re: [WiX-users] DTF managed custom action - temporary file

2013-11-26 Thread Phil Wilson
If the users are different so is the temp location. The immediate CA gets the user's temp path, the system account (no impersonation) uses the system's temp path. As long as you create the file where both have access, perhaps you could put the actual path to it in the registry. Phil Wilson On Tu