It is by design of Windows Installer.
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From: David Watson [mailto:dwat...@sdl.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 8:41 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] Setting Permissions on a 64 bit system folder from a 32
bit msi.
Hi,
I am trying to set permissions on a folder under system32 on
64bit windows in a 32 bit msi. I know this is not great from a security
perspective but it's currently a requirement of the application. We wont
use the everyone account in the real installer.
Like so...
<Directory Id="WindowsFolder">
<Directory Id="System32" Name="System32">
<Directory Id="inetsrv" Name="inetsrv">
<Directory Id="config" Name="config">
<Component Id="Redirect.config.x64" Guid="*"
Win64="yes">
<Condition>VersionNT64</Condition>
<RegistryValue Action="write" Root="HKLM"
Key="$(var.RegistryPath)" Name="Redirect.configPermissions.x64"
Value="1" Type="string" KeyPath="yes" />
<CreateFolder>
<util:PermissionEx User="Everyone" Read="yes"
ReadAttributes="yes" ReadPermission="yes" Traverse="yes"
GenericRead="yes" />
</CreateFolder>
</Component>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
The registry key is not being redirected so is behaving as expected but
the permission is being redirected to SysWow64.
If I build the MSI as 64 bit, it works as expected.
Is this a bug? Does anyone have any suggesions on how to set these
permissions from a 32 bit msi. I really wouldn't like to have to ship
two msis as I have managed to get around needing them so far and our
application is a 32 bit one.
Issue 1814863 in the bugs database
(http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1814863&group_
id=105970&atid=642714) implies that you can set permissions on registry
keys like this so I would have expected that I could do it with a
folder.
Dave
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