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| author | Mark Hammond <mhammond@skippinet.com.au> | 2008-05-02 12:48:15 (GMT) |
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| committer | Mark Hammond <mhammond@skippinet.com.au> | 2008-05-02 12:48:15 (GMT) |
| commit | 7c5c8e6823e476b46a30373e5a95e8b8e4c5fa09 (patch) | |
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| parent | f8cc64017ca0f33b1e21b1c9c9f5f30ebdc4da31 (diff) | |
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#2581: Vista UAC/elevation support for bdist_wininst
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst | 9 |
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diff --git a/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst b/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst index cd2bd81..c4b8dbf 100644 --- a/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst +++ b/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst @@ -426,6 +426,13 @@ built-in functions in the installation script. also the configuration. For details refer to Microsoft's documentation of the :cfunc:`SHGetSpecialFolderPath` function. +Vista User Access Control (UAC) +=============================== + +Starting with Python 2.6, bdist_wininst supports a :option:`--user-access-control` +option. The default is 'none' (meaning no UAC handling is done), and other +valid values are 'auto' (meaning prompt for UAC elevation if Python was +installed for all users) and 'force' (meaning always prompt for elevation) .. function:: create_shortcut(target, description, filename[, arguments[, workdir[, iconpath[, iconindex]]]]) @@ -437,5 +444,3 @@ built-in functions in the installation script. and *iconindex* is the index of the icon in the file *iconpath*. Again, for details consult the Microsoft documentation for the :class:`IShellLink` interface. - - |