As a follow-up question, is there a difference in how this action
(ServiceInstall) acts in an XP environment vs Windows 2k3? The installer
I've developed on XP seems to install the service just fine in the dev
environment, but when I take the same installer over to a 2003 server it
seems to mostly skip that part altogether. It does write the registry
entries I would expect, but even a reboot of the 2003 server will not
get it to 'pop' into the services list. Any ideas? My code snippet looks
like this:
<ServiceInstall Id="DomainTestService"
Account="[SERVICE_DOMAIN]\[SERVICE_USER]"
Description="TestService"
DisplayName="TestService"
ErrorControl="ignore"
Interactive="no"
Name="TestService.exe"
Password="SERVICE_PASSWORD"
Start="auto"
Type="ownProcess" />
<ServiceControl Id="DomainServiceControl"
Name="TestService.exe"
Stop="uninstall"
Remove="uninstall" />
Earlier in the component I have the .exe set as a keyfile, etc. As I
said it works just fine on XP, seems to not work on 2K3.
Note that I do not want the service to start upon install, so I left the
'Start' key out of the ServiceControl item. Is this okay to do?
-Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Kaplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 2:16 PM
To: Rob Mensching; Matthew Janulewicz; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Verify user?
I think you'd also need to check to see if the authenticated user has at
minimum "log on as a service" privilege. It might not. The service
could
still fail to start due to other ACL problems, so all in all, it is a
pretty
difficult thing to get 100%.
A custom action that does LogonUser would at least validate the
credentials
though.
Perhaps that could be added as a feature request for the service control
CA
stuff? Add a "ValidateCredentials" attribute or something...
The privilege thing reminds me that it would be cool to have local
security
policy changes to handle things like user rights assignment as a CA in
WiX
(log on as service, act as part of the operating system, etc.). Another
feature request. :)
Joe K.
----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Mensching
To: Matthew Janulewicz ; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Verify user?
You'd need a CustomAction to try to logon that user (or something to
verify
it is a valid user/password). There isn't anything in the WiX toolset
for
that today, but it'd be cool if there was.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew
Janulewicz
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 09:48
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Verify user?
We're using Wix 3. One of our installers installs a service, but it may
run
under different users in different environments. The installer will
prompt
the user for the domain, username and password to apply during the
ServiceInstall step.
However, if they enter in an invalid user or password the installer just
sort of uninstalls itself and stops. Is there a way to verify a
domain/user/password is valid before ServiceInstall fires off?
----------
Matthew Janulewicz
SCM Engineer
Green Dot Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(626) 775-3857
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