Permissions for ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES issue

Question

I have a config.txt file in my VS 2013 project. Here is its permissions for ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES :

When I get a setup.exe by compiling an InstallShield LE project inside my solution, and when I run setup.exe, I get this config.txt under Program Files with these permissions :

I want all permissions to be allowed after extracting setup.exe. How can I do that? Thanks

Answer 1

By default the ProgramFiles folder and all subdirectories and files have only Read and Read&Execute permissions for security purposes. So, all files which copies to this folder inherite these permissions.
To change file or folder permissions with help of InstallShield, you could refer to the approtiate documentation. Also it could be achived by launching different tools for working with permissions, like subinacl.exe, icacls.exe, etc with help of custom actions.

But, as mentioned Michael Urman in comments, it's bad idea to place config files with write access under ProgramFiles (and other system folders), because of possible security issues. So, I also reccomend to refrain from using this logic and store these files in User profile folders.