Re: [WiX-users] ServiceInstall with invalid service user account

[Joe K. <jo...@jo...>]

Remember that LogonUser requires the "Act as part of the operating system" 
privilege on Win2K and lower and generally only SYSTEM has that.  As long as 
the CA is run under the Windows Installer service account (SYSTEM), this 
would work fine on any NT OS.  If the CA is run under an impersonated 
account, you can't count on LogonUser working on 2K or lower, even if the 
user running the installer is an admin.

Just a thought.  I actually don't know what security context CAs run in or 
what the options there are, but you want to at least plan for that in dev 
and testing.

Otherwise it should work as the service account must have permissions to log 
in locally and LogonUser will verify that very easily.

Joe K.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Dente" <kev...@gm...>
To: <ro...@us...>; "Wix Users" 
<wix...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] ServiceInstall with invalid service user account


Thanks for the info, Rob. I was afraid that was going to be the answer.

Would you envision this as an extension of the existing User action?
Or a new action entirely?

If I do end up writing it, I'll probably be able to submit it to the
community. It seems like it should be pretty trivial - a call to the
Win32 LogonUser function - but I'm not sure if there are
permission-related issues that might make it more complicated.

Kevin

On 6/28/05, Rob Mensching <ro...@us...> wrote:
> Unfortunately, I think a CustomAction is the only option here.  This is 
> one
> of those "standard custom actions" I think the WiX toolset should have.
> Would you be interested in submitting to the WiX toolset so other's can 
> use
> what you've done instead of reinventing the wheel?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix...@li...
> [mailto:wix...@li...] On Behalf Of Kevin Dente
> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 5:26 PM
> To: Wix Users
> Subject: [WiX-users] ServiceInstall with invalid service user account
>
> I created a dialog that lets the user specify the user ID and password
> that an installed service will run under, with that info being used by
> a ServiceInstall action. While testing, I found that if an invalid
> user name is entered, the install fails with the generic "could not be
> installed, verify that you have sufficient privileges" error. At that
> point, the install bombs out and rolls back. Aside from writing a
> custom action that verifies the user account, is there a more graceful
> way to handle this error condition?
>
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