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Vista UAC/elevation support for bdist_wininst #46833

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mhammond opened this issue Apr 8, 2008 · 3 comments
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Vista UAC/elevation support for bdist_wininst #46833

mhammond opened this issue Apr 8, 2008 · 3 comments
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mhammond commented Apr 8, 2008

BPO 2581
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  • bdist_wininst_uac.patch: patch adding uac capabilities to bdist_wininst
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title = 'Vista UAC/elevation support for bdist_wininst'
updated_at = <Date 2010-06-01.19:59:35.475>
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    mhammond commented Apr 8, 2008

    The attached patch adds basic UAC support to bdist_wininst created
    installers. A new option '--user-access-control' has been added to
    bdist_wininst, which is written to the INI file read by the installer.
    The installer reads this value: if it is 'force', elevation is always
    requested, if it is 'auto', elevation is requested when Python is
    installed in HKLM. 'none' (the default) means nothing UAC related
    happens at all.

    The elevation happens by having the installer re-execute itself using
    ShellExecute.

    I've also ensured the code builds for all versions of VS we support. As
    a result, it was necessary to change the old bdist_wininst project files
    to point to the later zlib version Python itself uses. All these
    changes are in the patch.

    @mhammond mhammond self-assigned this Apr 8, 2008
    @mhammond mhammond added stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error labels Apr 8, 2008
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    mhammond commented May 3, 2008

    Checked in as r62636

    @mhammond mhammond closed this as completed May 3, 2008
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    techtonik mannequin commented Jun 1, 2010

    Doesn't seem to work anymore. Please, see:
    http://bugs.python.org/issue8870
    http://bugs.python.org/issue8871

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