WIX: Giving Permissions to a folder

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I've read all related topics and haven't found a full answer to my problem. I would like to give full permissions to SYSTEM and Read & Execute permissions to Users group to a folder under Program Files. Nothing more, nothing less. I know there are 3 ways to give permissions to a folder using WIX, none of them are really good for me and I'll explain why: 1) Regular Permission element: ``` ``` Problem: It fails on foreign OS since it doesn't knows the "Users" keyword. I tried it with SID as well. Beside that I need to place the Permission element under each file in the Test directory (but if this was the only case, I would have managed) 2) WixUtilsExtension PermissionEx element: ```

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I had this exact same issue and talked to Rob M about it. I was going to do Christian G's answer (https://stackoverflow.com/a/5296967/18475), but Rob suggested using WixQueryOsWellKnownSID (http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/osinfo.htm) to get around non en-US locales. In the `.wxs` file you add the following: ``` ``` And further down in the `.wxs` file where you want to apply the permissions it's just like this: ``` ``` Now when you run light, you just need to link `WixUtilExtension`. ``` light -ext WiXUtilExtension ... ``` NOTE: Depending on your version of WiX, this may not be fully supported. If it doesn't work for you, there may be other options you can use to translate SIDs.

WIX: Giving Permissions to a folder

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