Run an MSI as admin from logged in users local appdata folder

[80sGuy]

Hi there. This is my first post on the forum but I'm a long time lurker.

I would really appreciate some help with trying to run an MSI that's (by default) placed into the logged in users appdata\local\... directory from a script executed with elevated rights. 
I used _RunWithReducedPrivileges to install it which worked great however removing the application seems to need more work.

I'm looking to set my $path to the logged in users appdata directory and then run that MSI, I'm assuming, with _RunWithReducedPrivileges. I would also consider copying that file over to my @ScritpDir if I could just reach it. 

Every time I try to capture my path in a msgbox it shows the one of the admin, not the user. 

I found this script which does a nice job capturing the username but I'm having trouble passing that username into my $path.
 

#RequireAdmin

MsgBox(0, 0, @UserName)
MsgBox(0, 0, _GetUsername())

Func _GetUsername()
    Local $aResult = DllCall("Wtsapi32.dll", "int", "WTSQuerySessionInformationW", "int", 0, "dword", -1, "int", 5, "dword*", 0, "dword*", 0)
    If @error Or $aResult[0] = 0 Then Return SetError(1, 0, 0)
    Local $sUsername = BinaryToString(DllStructGetData(DllStructCreate("byte[" & $aResult[5] & "]", $aResult[4]), 1), 2)
    DllCall("Wtsapi32.dll", "int", "WTSFreeMemory", "ptr", $aResult[4])
    Return $sUsername
EndFunc   ;==>_GetUsername

 

[MattHiggs]

Have you tried using a macro to determine the path to use?  Like @UserProfileDir or @LocalAppDataDir?  Check out the below web page:

https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/macros.htm

[Subz]

Usually I use "@DocumentsCommonDir" which by default everyone has access to, otherwise you could use the code above but you need to strip white space from the beginning and end of $sUsername (I did anyway).

Global $g_sLocalAppData = _GetLocalAppData()
If @error Then MsgBox(4096, "Error", "Error: Local AppData Folder not found.")
MsgBox(4096, "Local AppData Folder", $g_sLocalAppData)

Func _GetLocalAppData()
    Opt("ExpandEnvStrings", 1)
        Local $sUsersDir = RegRead((@OSArch = "X64" ? "HKLM64" : "HKLM") & "\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList", "ProfilesDirectory")
            $sUsersDir = $sUsersDir
    Opt("ExpandEnvStrings", 0)
   Local $aResult = DllCall("Wtsapi32.dll", "int", "WTSQuerySessionInformationW", "int", 0, "dword", -1, "int", 5, "dword*", 0, "dword*", 0)
    If @error Or $aResult[0] = 0 Then Return SetError(1, 0, 0)
    Local $sUsername = BinaryToString(DllStructGetData(DllStructCreate("byte[" & $aResult[5] & "]", $aResult[4]), 1), 2)
    DllCall("Wtsapi32.dll", "int", "WTSFreeMemory", "ptr", $aResult[4])
    Local $sLocalAppData = $sUsersDir & "\" & StringStripWS($sUsername, 7) & "\AppData\Local"
    If FileExists($sLocalAppData) Then
        Return SetError(0, 0, $sLocalAppData)
    Else
        Return SetError(1, 0, "")
    EndIf
EndFunc   ;==>_GetUsername

 

[80sGuy]

On 11/28/2020 at 11:07 PM, MattHiggs said:

Have you tried using a macro to determine the path to use?  Like @UserProfileDir or @LocalAppDataDir?  Check out the below web page:

https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/macros.htm

I did try a few of these but as the script is being run as admin it only picks up that username and not the logged in user.

[rudi]

Drop that script into the appropriate user's %APPDATA% directory. Then within the script use @scriptdir macro to retrieve the path the script has been dropped to before.