Peter -- thanks for pointing that out. Obviously with this information I could fix the behavior by patching the WiX sources and building my own binaries. But looking at the current head of the 3.5 development I see the same code there as in 3.0. So I guess it is not planned to change the behavior. This would mean that I had to patch and rebuild with every new WiX release I want to use. I don't think that's what I want to do.
So I will go with a CustomAction. Thanks again! Andreas Hirth > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:pshirtcli...@sdl.com] > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 3:42 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Registry permission for key and subkeys > > Sadly, you cant do it. Yan found the specific bit of code that causes > this problem so if you are prepared to recompile wix yourself, you could > make the fix. > > http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Registry-P > ermissions-td2939332.html#a2939332 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andreas Hirth [mailto:a.hi...@luratech.com] > Sent: 09 July 2010 13:24 > To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Registry permission for key and subkeys > > That's exactly the problem. The permission must be inherited to keys > created later by the application. > > I already have the code to put in a custom action but I try to use > built-in functionality as much as possible. So I would prefer if there > was a way to do it "natively" with Windows Installer or WiX. > > Andreas Hirth > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Peter Shirtcliffe [mailto:pshirtcli...@sdl.com] > > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 1:34 PM > > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Registry permission for key and subkeys > > > > My colleague had this same problem. > > If you have a limited number of keys that are known at install time, > > you can add them all explicitly and set permissions on them. > > Since we wanted the permissions to cascade down to keys created by the > > > application and we were short of time, we used wix's qtexec custom > > action to run an open source utility called SetACL. > > http://setacl.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andreas Hirth [mailto:a.hi...@luratech.com] > > Sent: 09 July 2010 09:47 > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [WiX-users] Registry permission for key and subkeys > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm struggling with the task to apply security settings to a registry > > key. > > What I want to achieve is setting full access to Everyone for a > > registry key, and I want this being inherited. Unfortunately I only > > get as far as setting the full access right for Everyone on the key, > > but it applies "This key only": > > > > <RegistryKey Root="HKLM" Key="SOFTWARE\Foo" Action="create"> > > <util:PermissionEx User="Everyone" GenericAll="yes" /> > > </RegistryKey> > > > > However, I need it to apply to "This key and subkeys". > > > > Is there any way to get this working other than a custom CustomAction? > > > > Any advise is much appreciated! > > > > Andreas Hirth > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > > ------ > > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with > > EVO, the first 4G phone? > > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > </pre> > > <BR style="font-size:4px;"> > > <a href = "http://www.sdl.com";><img > > src="http://www.sdl.com/images/email > > logo_150dpi-01.png" alt="www.sdl.com" border="0"/></a> <BR> <font > > face="arial" size="2" "><a href = "http://www.sdl.com"; > > style="color:005740; font-weight: bold">www.sdl.com</a> <BR> <BR> > > <font face="arial" size="1" color="#736F6E"> <b>SDL PLC confidential, > > > all rights reserved.</b> If you are not the intended recipient of this > > > mail SDL requests and > requires > > that you delete it without acting upon or copying any of its contents, > > > and > we > > further request that you advise us.<BR> SDL PLC is a public limited > > company registered in England and Wales. > > Registered number: 02675207.<BR> > > Registered address: Globe House, Clivemont Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire > > > SL6 > 7DY, > > UK. > > </font> > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---- > -- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with > > EVO, the first 4G phone? > > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with > EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? 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