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win,msi: mark INSTALLDIR property as secure #8795

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  • make -j8 test (UNIX), or vcbuild test nosign (Windows) passes
  • commit message follows commit guidelines
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Windows, MSI.

Description of change

When installing with Always install with elevated privileges policy set on Windows, MSIExec will spawn an installation process with elevated privileges, but will only be able to pass secure properties to it. Without this change, INSTALLDIR could not be passed and would revert to the default, effectively ignoring any change in the installation directory made by the user.

This marks INSTALLDIR as secure, allowing it to be passed to the server MSIExec process during installation.

Tested on Windows 7 with the policy set, with the MSI and INSTALLDIR in two different non-C hard drives (showing that other properties get their values corretly). Also tested upgrade from released Node 6.4 to this on Windows 10.

Fixes: #6057

cc @nodejs/platform-windows

Allows INSTALLDIR to be passed to the server MSIExec process during
installation.

Fixes: nodejs#6057
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LGTM - this change sounds reasonable. For those who want a reference http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/xsd/wix/property.html

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LGTM

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:shipit:

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jasnell commented Oct 7, 2016

@nodejs/build ... does this LGTY?

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@jasnell sorry, I left this one too long. I take the reviews above as enough to move forward here, I'll land this early next week if there are no objections (or feel free to if you want to land). Thanks for the ping!

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Landed in 4896f0f

@joaocgreis joaocgreis closed this Oct 10, 2016
joaocgreis added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 10, 2016
Allows INSTALLDIR to be passed to the server MSIExec process during
installation.

PR-URL: #8795
Fixes: #6057
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
jasnell pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 10, 2016
Allows INSTALLDIR to be passed to the server MSIExec process during
installation.

PR-URL: #8795
Fixes: #6057
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Fishrock123 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 11, 2016
Allows INSTALLDIR to be passed to the server MSIExec process during
installation.

PR-URL: #8795
Fixes: #6057
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
MylesBorins pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 18, 2016
Allows INSTALLDIR to be passed to the server MSIExec process during
installation.

PR-URL: #8795
Fixes: #6057
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
@MylesBorins MylesBorins mentioned this pull request Nov 22, 2016
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