install for all users if installler is run with admin privilegs

[franzhaas]

Dear all,

I ended up copying the nsis template and removed 1 line.:

!define MULTIUSER_INSTALLMODE_DEFAULT_CURRENTUSER

Is there a more convenient way to do that?

Thanks in advance, Franz

[takluyver]

Hi Franz,

When you say 'with admin privileges', do you mean you're logged in as a user with admin rights, or are you doing something extra, like right-clicking and selecting run as admin. I think when I wrote this (years ago), I was aiming for it to do user installs by default for all users, even if they had admin access. But I haven't actually used Windows day-to-day since the XP era, so I'm pretty out of touch with how things behave nowadays.

[franzhaas]

Hi takluyver,

I have 2 use cases.

1.) i run a tool provided by our IT which creates a temporary user with admin rights and allows me to run a terminal as this user.

• choco installs into that temporary user's home directory, which gets removed at next reboot. 2.) I run the cmd with right click run as administrator

in both cases, I would like to have it installed system-wide.

Thanks for looking into this, Franz

[takluyver]

So are you running the installer from the command prompt in 'silent' mode (without the UI)? It looks like the multiuser support has command line options /AllUsers or /CurrentUser to select one or the other - does that help?

[franzhaas]

Hi takluyver,

amazing.... this works!

Thanks a lot! Franz

[takluyver]

No problem, glad it helped!

Do you think Pynsist should change the default behaviour? I'm still not quite sure how admin permissions work on Windows or what's common for other installers. :slightly_smiling_face:

[franzhaas]

I am sorry, I have no idea.