[wpkg-users] WPKG client installer questions

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Mark Nienberg wrote:

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> There are potentially 3 user/password combination in play.  First, the user under 
> which the wpkg service runs.  If you install the service using the wpkg-installer, 
> this will always be SYSTEM, no matter what you write in any of the boxes.  You could 
> change this after installation in the windows service properties dialog box, but 
> there is really no reason to do so.
> 
> Second, the "script path user" is just the user under which the wpkg.js script file 
> and configuration xml files are accessed.  The user needs read access to the files, 
> but this is all it is used for, so it can be a user with low privileges.  It doesn't 
> need access to the rest of your network or anything. If your script and configuration 
> files are located in a share that allows guest access, then maybe this user/password 
> doesn't even matter.
> 
> Third, the "Script execution context" user is the user that "executes all commands". 
>   This user probably has to have administrative privileges on the local machine to be 
> able to do most interesting installs.  By default, wpgk-install sets this to SYSTEM, 
> which works fine as long as the installs do not have to access other network shares. 
> If any of your installation scripts require access to network shares (other than the 
> share where the script and configuration files are) then you can set this to a user 
> that has administrative privileges on the local machine and also read (or read/write) 
> privileges on the necessary network shares.

Great summary.


> If all this seems right to you, I will try to work it into the wiki.

Would be nice indeed :)


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org





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