NSIS 2.30

Jeffrey Altman jaltman at secure-endpoints.com
Tue Sep 11 09:22:14 EDT 2007


Danny Mayer wrote:
> That wasn't what I meant. Of course you need privileges to install. If
> the Network Provider is being run as a service you should consider what
> privileges it really needs to run. For example I install both BIND and
> NTP to run under accounts with very limited privileges, 1 in the case of
> BIND and 2 for NTP.
"RequestExecutionPrivilege admin" is a configuration option for the
installer executable
that explicitly tells Windows that the installer must be run with
administrator privileges.
It has nothing to do with what is done after the installation completes.

Jeffrey Altman

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