Enhancement request

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Enhancement request

Postby theking2 » 28. August 2022 13:22

The XAMPP Control Panel needs administrator right in order to save settings or change of settings.
I suggest to add requestedExecutionLevel to the manifest for xampp-control.exe

https://superuser.com/questions/604927/ ... omatically
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Re: Enhancement request

Postby Altrea » 29. August 2022 23:00

The XAMPP control panel is usable without elevated administrator rights. Only some of the functions (like registering windows services) really need administrator rights.
Adding requireAdministrator to the manifest would mean the control panel can not be used without administrator rights anymore.

That the configuration file needs administrator rights to update is a result of a vulnerability. The xampp-control.ini is only writable for users of the Administrator user group. You can change that manually (if you are aware about this vulnerability).
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Re: Enhancement request

Postby theking2 » 31. August 2022 10:18

Easier: remove xampp-control.ini and it will be created with the proper rights the next time XAMPP Control Panel was started.
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