[wpkg-users] Elevated-Execute

[Greg Kavanagh]

Hi,

I'm having a lot of difficulty figuring out how to install wpkg-client
with group policy and having it find the settings file on the server.
I've been trying to edit an .mst transform file to set the "settings
file" variable with little success. I was wondering if anyone had
accomplished this successfully?

Thanks
Greg

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Rainer Meier <r.meier at wpkg.org> wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Greg Kavanagh wrote:
>> Here's my understanding of what happens with the eleveated-execute.js script:
>>  It runs a shellExecute  with the 'runas' parameter which requests
>> elevation. As it is it prompts the user for an admin user name and
>> password, which they won't have. Is there a way to automagically
>> elevate it without any user interaction, am i missing something? I
>> want to use this method to roll out the WPKG client to all the
>> machines on the network.
>
> Your understanding of the script is correct. However there is no way to
> bypass the UAC prompt except disabling UAC completely. Software
> installation always requires Administrator privileges which always
> triggers an UAC prompt on Vista. I've delveloped the execute-elevated
> script to reduce the amount of prompts during WPKG execution to 1 (whole
> wpkg.js can be run with elevated privileges and installers run by WPKG
> inherit this privileges).
>
> WPKG client does not need this wrapper as it usually runs wpkg.js with
> SYSTEM privileges (which is not affected by the UAC prompt "feature").
> However to install WPKG client you really need an administrator account.
> If you operate an active-directory domain you might deploy WPKG via
> group policies.
>
> br,
> Rainer
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