Wireshark · Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 7238] New: install Wireshark without ADMIN

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           Summary: install Wireshark without ADMIN
           Product: Wireshark
           Version: 1.6.7
          Platform: x86
               URL: http://preview.library.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa3
                    67800(v=vs.85).aspx
        OS/Version: Windows 7
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: High
         Component: Wireshark
        AssignedTo: bugzilla-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: GaryChaulklin@xxxxxxxxx


Build Information:
Version 1.6.7 (SVN Rev 41973 from /trunk-1.6)

Copyright 1998-2012 Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> and contributors.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Compiled (32-bit) with GTK+ 2.24.10, with GLib 2.28.8, with WinPcap (version
unknown), with libz 1.2.5, without POSIX capabilities, without libpcre, with
SMI
0.4.8, with c-ares 1.7.1, with Lua 5.1, without Python, with GnuTLS 2.12.18,
with Gcrypt 1.4.6, with MIT Kerberos, with GeoIP, with PortAudio V19-devel
(built Apr  6 2012), with AirPcap.

Running on Windows XP Service Pack 3, build 2600, with WinPcap version 4.1.2
(packet.dll version 4.1.0.2001), based on libpcap version 1.0 branch 1_0_rel0b
(20091008), GnuTLS 2.12.18, Gcrypt 1.4.6, without AirPcap.

Built using Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 build 21022

Wireshark is Open Source Software released under the GNU General Public
License.

Check the man page and http://www.wireshark.org for more information.
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We used to be able to install Wireshark without ADMIN.  Now that we have gone
to Windows 7 and User Account Control we are forced to use ADMIN even though we
are NOT installing WinPcap.  Below is information on how an author can avoid
this requirement taken from:
(http://preview.library.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367800(v=vs.85).aspx)

Authoring Packages without the UAC Dialog Box
When elevated privileges are not required to install a Windows Installer
package, the author of the package can suppress the dialog box that User
Account Control (UAC) displays to prompt users for administrator authorization.

To suppress the display of the UAC dialog box when installing the application,
the author of the package should do the following:

Install the application using Window Installer 4.0 or later on Windows Vista. 
Do not depend on using elevated system privileges to install the application on
the computer. 
Install the application in the per-user context and make this the default
installation context of the package. If the ALLUSERS property is not set, the
installer installs the package in the per-user context. If you do not include
the ALLUSERS property in the Property table, the installer does not set this
property and so per-user installation becomes the default installation context.
You can override this default by setting the ALLUSERS property on the command
line. 
Set Bit 3 in the Word Count Summary property to indicate that elevated
privileges are not required to install the application.

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