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#97253 - 2002-12-20 11:14 AM MSI files and elevating privilegues
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Is it possible to modify .MSI files so that they run under another useraccount, and if so, exactly how?

No, don't have an AD domain yet [Wink]
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#97254 - 2002-12-21 12:24 AM Re: MSI files and elevating privilegues
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you do not modify the MSI...

There is a group policy (2 of them actualy, you need to do both) on the local machine (win2k) that you can configure to allow MSI to be installed using an administrative privledge on the local machine

Since you do not have AD, you will have to do this on all win2k machines
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#97255 - 2002-12-21 12:32 AM Re: MSI files and elevating privilegues
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and that is another security hole.
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#97256 - 2002-12-20 02:57 PM Re: MSI files and elevating privilegues
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Users should never be able to install applications themselves, thus I have 'AlwaysInstallElevated' enabled on my machines, this will require administrative privileges on order to install .MSI files.
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#97257 - 2002-12-26 02:14 PM Re: MSI files and elevating privilegues
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Ok. So it's not possible then.

So what is the default for domain clients (w2k/XP)? Is that local GPO option enabled or disabled?

I guess there's a switch for the MSI where you can tell it to run with elevated privilegues? If the local GPO then allows is, will there be a user/pwd challenge, or will the MSI simply run with elevated privilegues?
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