On Nov 29, 10:47 pm, Dennis Bareis <dbar...[ at ]newsgroup.nospam> wrote:
[Quoted Text] > On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:54:54 -0800 (PST), "ranag...[ at ]gmail.com" <ana...[ at ]comcast.net> wrote:
> >Hi,
> > We have created an msi package that use the email adress and
> >password as two custom properties. The password property has been set
> >to be a "hidden" property.
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> How and when?
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> >During command line installation i used the command,
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> >msiexec/i C:\AgentSetup.msi /qn /lv C:\installation.txt
> >emailaddress=...[ at ]lek.com password=pass[ at ]123
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> >The log file c:\installation.txt contained the entire command line.
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> >"
> >MSI (s) (B0:E4) [13:15:31:057]: Command Line: emailaddress=...[ at ]lek.com
> >password=pass[ at ]123 CURRENTDIRECTORY=C:\ CLIENTUILEVEL=3
> >CLIENTPROCESSID=2916
> >"
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> >The problem is that the password is being printed out as a part of the
> >command line.. it is not being substituted with "*****", as I would
> >have expected.
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> It could be a Windows Installer bug but could also be that you are
> scheduling a property update too late.
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> Hi Dennis,
Thank you for the response. It may be that we are not setting the
property to be hidden early enough. I have inherited this package and
am working through it. The basic organization seems to be --
-- Product details (product code, package code, upgrade code etc)
-- Set some messages based on OS version (NT, XP, Vista etc). For
example <Condition Message='$(loc.OSRestrictionME)'><![CDATA
[VersionNT]]></Condition>
-- Read values from registry and set some custom properties
for example <Property Id="INSTALLED7XAGENT">
<RegistrySearch Id="Check7xRegistry" Root="HKLM"
Key="SOFTWARE\Classes
\CLSID\{5CD5376C-0243-4730-9F29-AF38EC0B79E7}\LocalServer32"
Type="file"/>
</Property>
-- List of components, directories etc
-- List of features and the components they include
-- List of customactions, for example
<CustomAction Id="ConfigureAgentService" BinaryKey="BackupCA.dll"
DllEntry="ConfigureAgentService" Execute="deferred" Impersonate="no" /
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Any custom action that is using this property is setting the
"HideTarget" attribute to yes
For example
<Property Id="CheckInstallationCondition" Hidden="yes"/>
<CustomAction Id="CheckInstallationCondition" Execute="deferred"
Impersonate="no" Return="check" BinaryKey="BackupCA.dll"
DllEntry="CheckInstallationCondition" HideTarget="yes"/>
<CustomAction Id="CheckInstallationCondition_SetProperty"
Return="check"Property="CheckInstallationCondition"
Value="[Installed]|[INSTALLED7XAGENT]|[SSWSAccountNumber]|
[ACCOUNTNUMBER]|[TECHID]|[PASSWORD]|[USERPASSWORD]|[LDAPID]|[EMAILA
DDRESS]" HideTarget="yes"/>
-- UIspecification
-- some properties
-- Dialogs with controls
-- AminUISequence
-- InstallUISequence
-- list of properties including the password property.
The password property is specified as
<Property Id="PASSWORD" Hidden="yes"><![CDATA[0]]></Property>
-- adminexecute sequence
-- install execute sequence
Thank you
Anagha
Bye,
> Dennis
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