Software Deployment

If you use Wise, set permissions directly in there .. or use cacls.exe which exists on Wndows XP Pro Workstations, basicly the same as xcacls.exe in resource kit tools.

Bart [8|]

I think using secedit, xcalcs, and calcs are all solid methods. What I would not recommend is trying to set your perms using the Wise interface. Running a Custom Action to set file or reg perms just before InstallFinalize will produce much more predictable results. If you try to do it through the Wise interface, you cannot always be certain one of your perms will not get set or will be overwritten because of not being able to control sequencing.


Craig --<>.

I'd second Craigs comments, and also add setacl to the mix of utilities, it can do things that xcacls and cacls can't. On the downside its syntax is somewhat obtuse.

http://setacl.sourceforge.net

Also, one thing I always check when adding permissions is that the uninstall works. If you forget to make your custom action conditional on the application installing, it will try and run on uninstall as well, which could produce errors if the key/file you are trying to set permissions on no longer exists.

Hope that helps.

Rgds

Paul