This sounds like a good idea. To create a new account and give it admin rights Assuming the user installing the software has admin rights as well
Can you show me how? Is there a reference link I can look into? Many Thanks Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sent: 05 September 2008 20:05 To: WiX Users Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix Add Dialog to prompt for username and pwd In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> , "Yu, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I read section 8 of http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson8.php but > there's no mention on how to write a dialog box that prompts for user > name and password and use them to register COM+. Its never a good idea to prompt users for credentials at install time. Its a bad security practice and it leads to coupling of your product with credentials for some account, both of which may be changed or deleted and cause your product to start failing unexpectedly and strangely. You are better off creating accounts that can't be used as interactive logins, setting their credentials (username/password) explicitly and then setting the COM+ component to run as this newly created identity. Add priveleges, permissions and group membership to the newly created identity in order to give it the necessary permissions it needs to do its work. A system administrator is much more likely to understand your configuration when browsing the newly created credential because it has a description of what it does: "Foo Inc. Processing Service Login". Any decent system administrator should resist random credential queries from programs they are installing. In fact, if any program asked me to enter credentials at install time, I'd be unlikely to recommend it to any serious outfit. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
