I have a winforms app that installs other apps in a loop. This works properly on an administrator account in Windows 7, but I have serious issues in a standard account - the app requires elevation in order to write to "Program Files(x86)" folder.
Therefore I am trying to ask for elevation for a specific method (the one that runs the installers) in a winforms c# app, using this code:
[System.Security.Permissions.PrincipalPermission(System.Security.Permissions.SecurityAction.Demand, Role = @"BUILTIN\Administrators")]
After receiving an error, I learned from the web that before calling the method which carries the above attribute, I need to write this:
AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetPrincipalPolicy(PrincipalPolicy.WindowsPrincipal);
I did this, and the method still throws the following error:
Request for principal permission failed.
Step by step debugging passes the SetPrincipalPolicy line but, when it reaches the method with the Demand atribute, it just throws the same error, as if the SetPrincipalPolicy never existed.
Am I doing something wrong in setting the Demand attribute properly?
Thank you in advance.
LATER EDIT: as requested here is the code that is supposed to trigger the elevation request when installing the app silently (but does not work):
WindowsPrincipal principal = new WindowsPrincipal(WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent());
bool hasAdministrativeRight = principal.IsInRole(WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator);
if (!hasAdministrativeRight)
{
ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo(file);
psi.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
psi.UseShellExecute = true;
psi.Verb = "runas";
//psi.CreateNoWindow = true;
psi.Arguments = modifiers;
try
{
using (Process process = Process.Start(psi))
{
process.WaitForExit();
if (process.HasExited)
return process.ExitCode;
}
}
catch (Win32Exception wex)
{
}
}
What I need, is for that process to pop a dialog asking for username and password for admin, if the app was ran under a Windows Standard User. Only the process started programmatically above should run as admin, the main app itself can remain as a standard user.