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[kgiloo]

[BASIC MSI IS 12]

I'm living a real nightmare with permissions on my target folder.

I set the privileges to my INSTALLDIR with IS 12:
Owner Administrators
RWX Administrators
RW Everyone
RW Users

Fine, but once I'm logon as user I got an access denied to the INSTALLDIR.

If I create manually another dir with exactly the same privileges, then I can access to it as simple user without problem.

Is there something wrong with the permissions set by IS or did I miss something??

I would be grateful for any help!!
Thank you

[kgiloo]

I observed another very weird behaviour:

I checked the properties of my INSTALLDIR:

1. I removed the group USERS (Read&Execute, List Folder, Read) from the privileges, 2. I re-add the same group USERS exactly with the same privileges
3. Apply-OK
4. log as user and finally accessed without trouble to the INSTALLDIR!!

Is anybody aware of any bug relating to the permissions set by IS?

[kgiloo]

Has anybody ever had this problem?

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Just to let you know that I reported this issue to InstallShield and they did reproduce it.
I have IS 12.
It's critical because it mess up the permissions and make the deployment not reliable.
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[Stefan Krueger]

Please open the .msi file in Direct Edit mode (or in Orca) and look at the LockPermissions table. Can you post the content of the relevant row of that table, in particular the User column?

[kgiloo]

Thanks for you reply.

The contents in the lock perm table:

INSTALLDIR CreateFolder Administrators 1880031743
INSTALLDIR CreateFolder Everyone 131241
INSTALLDIR CreateFolder Users 131241

[kgiloo]

Macrovision support:

"In the Permissions table replace the value with: 538050697 for Everyone and Users."

How weird!?

And it works indeed!

[Stefan Krueger]

You can find the meaning of these flags in winnt.h

[kgiloo]

Alright.

However if you enter these values directly in the lock permissions table, they will be differently displayed in the "Destination Permissions" of the Component (read only for 'everyone' in this case)