Following up on my own previous post, The description of Permission has this line in the documentation:
GenericRead YesNoType specifying this will fail to grant read access What does that description mean? The name suggests that I can grant GenericRead and that will grant, well, "Read" in the sense of the security tab of the properties pane on a file, but ... "fail to grant"?? What does "specifying" mean? What permissions do I grant to allow a group or user to *just* read a static configuration file? I've determined through experimentation that (1) below is not enough, and that (2) *is* that using Permission overrides everything else and that (3) yes, you can use a group, so I suppose I don't need that information still ... Keith Douglas Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Telephone | Téléphone 613-951-4405 Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-951-1966 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada -----Original Message----- From: Douglas, Keith - CoSD/DSCo Sent: March-01-13 3:40 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Permission (1) If I grant Read, ReadAttributes, ReadExtendedAttributes to two users based on a Permission element, what permissions do other users have? (2) Are the permissions exhaustive for those users? If not, how do I clear write access? Do I somehow have to use an explicit deny? (3) Can the User attribute be used with a local group as the value of the parameter instead? Finally, is the section in the Wix 3.5 documentation wrong on the difference between Permission and Util:PermissionEx? Or is the otherwise excellent book by Nick Ramirez wrong? The latter seems to describe Permission when talking about Utils:PermissionEx if the built in docs are to be believed. Keith Douglas Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Telephone | Téléphone 613-951-4405 Facsimile | Télécopieur 613-951-1966 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
