How about this idea:
Let the user select a cert to use, or alternately, select to generate a
self-signed cert.
Then, in the execute sequence, generate the self-signed cert and use it.
No UI sequence elevation required.
It will require an immediate custom action in the execute sequence to add the
generated cert's details to the appropriate table, and thus will also require
using either the InstallExecute or InstallExecuteAgain standard action between
the cert-creation and the cert-insertion-into-appropriate-tables actions.
See Bob's "semi custom action" blog entry for the general idea of immediate
actions adding rows to tables.
-Blair
> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 11:19:11 -0800
> From: phildgwil...@gmail.com
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Calling CustomAction which requires Elevated
> Privileges from UI PushButton
>
> The problem is that the UI sequence runs with installing user credentials,
> so if elevation is required it must come at launch time. If you were to
> shell execute an external process that asked for elevation it should work
> but the workflow would probably be terrible.
> This is one of those tasks that should be encouraged to be part of
> configuration done by the app at first run, by an administrator, if that's
> possible in your scenario - some things like this just aren't very easy in
> the UAC world.
>
> Phil Wilson
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Bevan Weiss <kaize...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying to create a WIX installer which allows a user to select a
> > certificate to use for a Web Site SSL binding.
> > However, if they don't have a valid certificate installed yet (just looking
> > in the Local Machine, My certificate store) then I'd like them to be able
> > to
> > generate a Self-Signed Certificate from within the UI.
> >
> > I've got a CA which will happily generate a Self-Signed Certificate,
> > however
> > I don't seem to be able to get the elevated privileges unless I actually
> > execute the MSI from an elevated command line.
> > I've tried the following:
> > 1) Setting the ElevationShield="yes" on the PushButton which calls the CA
> > (this looks spot on.. but doesn't appear to change anything regards
> > actually
> > Elevation status)
> > 2) Setting the Impersonate="no" setting on the CustomAction (which
> > references the CA .dll that I've created).
> >
> > Is there anything more obvious that I'm missing?
> > I do have InstallPrivileges="elevated" set on the overall Package.. and
> > InstallScope="perMachine"
> >
> > I'm sure some of you have even done this successfully before.. would love
> > to
> > know how.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bevan Weiss
> >
> >
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