Anthony7559
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Program data security

Sat Aug 27, 2022 8:56 am

I have an installation that prepares a ProgramData folder for the application to store common data. We are converting our system to run in a non admin mode and will need to make sure the ProgramData folder is prepared/adjusted to allow all access to a non admin user. We have found the permission options within the edit folder location. We have adjusted so that the base ProgramData folder is adjusted to allow all data to be accessible at this level and below. We though have scenarios where the program data folder has been prepared on previous installs and files exist already within the ProgramData folder that are not accessible to a non admin user. When we run after the ProgramData folder access level option have been changed - the already existing files are still left with limited access and cannot access from the non admin user run.

Catalin
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Re: Program data security

Mon Aug 29, 2022 11:24 am

Hello Anthony and welcome to our forums,

If I understand correctly here, your issue is the fact that the permissions on the files already present in the folder are kept.

Could you please make sure that, in Advanced Installer, the "Keep existing permissions" options is unchecked?
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Keep existing permissions
The default permissions from target folder on disk at install time will be preserved and the new permissions will be added on top of them.
Hope this helps!

Best regards,
Catalin
Catalin Gheorghe - Advanced Installer Team
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