[wix-devs] util:PermissionEx and support for registry inheritance

[Jeremy Hurren]

I think you're right - it should be possible. Two things I don't love about
it are the requirement for 5.0, since I support back to Vista and would
rather not make people install a new MSI. The second is that it potentially
overwrites any ACL that might be pre-existing on the key.

But it's worth me giving another thought to how important those two things
are.

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Phill Hogland <phill.hogland at rimage.com>
wrote:

> Those posts appear to relate to util:PermissionEx.
>
> I suspect you can achieve your goal with wix:PermissionEx and a SDDL
> string.
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 1:00:00 PM
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> Subject: [wix-devs] util:PermissionEx and support for registry inheritance
>
> Just ran into an issue with wix 3.x where these permissions are applied as
> "applies to subfolders" for directories, but as "applies to this key only"
> for registry keys. Sadly, this registry behavior won't work for my project,
> and I need to fix this.
>
> It appears that the following issues all refer to the same thing and have
> been around for quite some time:
> https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/2751
> https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/2580
> https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/2006
>
> So is there any reason that it shouldn't be addressed and fixed in wix3
> repository? (I have seen that the wix3 repo appears to have been limited in
> changes to security-type fixes, I assume in the hope of focusing effort
> towards the wix4 project.)
>
> --Jeremy Hurren
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