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wixcustom-action
harocool
harocool

Reputation: 41

How to check existing user account is under administrator group or not?

I'm using a wix installer to install a windows service using an existing user account(logon user account for the window service). I have a customUI dialog which will get the username and password, once the credentials are given while clicking the next button the installer should validate whether the given user is part of builtin administrator group. Should i use custom action or is there anyother way?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1058

Answers (1)

Yan Sklyarenko
Yan Sklyarenko

Reputation: 32270

This has to be a custom action. WiXUtilExtension gives you an option to add new or existing users to the groups (see User/Group/GroupRef elements), but this is probably not what you want - it can be quite dangerous.

BTW, you can take advantage of MSI Extensions project - take a look at this, it seems to be exactly what you need.

Upvotes: 2

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