Elevated Privileges on Windows

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David Zobel

• October 14, 2018 15:48

I'm writing an installer with InstallBuilder for an Intuit QuickBooks Desktop app. Intuit Desktop apps have to run two command-line arguments as part of their registration process:

1.) [applicaiton-name] -regserver. This runs with elevated privileges and registers the app as a COM server.

2.) [application-name] -subscribe. This subscribes the program to certain QuickBooks events. However, this should NOT run with elevated privileges.

 

So, I can obviously make the install in InstallBuilder run as Admin, and #1 succeeds just fine. However, is there any way I can get #2 to run properly using InstallBuilder? I just want it to run as the current user.

I did try doing the following:

<runProgram>
<program>${installdir}/MyApp.exe</program>
<programArguments>-subscribe -silent</programArguments>
<runAsAdmin>0</runAsAdmin>
</runProgram>

But it won't take the "runAsAdmin" for "runProgram".

 

Thanks!

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  BitRock support

  • October 15, 2018 15:17
  • Edited

  Hi David,

  Could you try the following snippet to run the script with lower privileges?

  <finalPageActionList>
    <runProgram progressText="Launch Application">
      <program>explorer</program>
      <programArguments>"${installdir}\MyApp.exe" &amp;</programArguments>
    </runProgram> 
  </finalPageActionList>

  Regards,

  Michiel

   

   

   

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