Bug #49674 saving changes to config in admin section raises UAC dialog twice

• Submitted: 14 Dec 2009 14:23
• Modified: 20 Sep 2010 15:33
• Reporter: Johannes Taxacher
• Status: Closed
• Category: MySQL Workbench: Administration
• Severity: S3 (Non-critical)
• Version: 5.2.11 (pre-release-package)
• OS: Windows (win7 x64)
• Assigned to: Alfredo Kojima
• CPU Architecture: Any

[14 Dec 2009 14:23] Johannes Taxacher

Description:
when applying changes to the mysql server config file, workbench raises UAC dialog to ask the user to elevate permissions to be able to write to the ini/cfg file. for some reason this dialog is initiated twice in a row.
additionally, the elevation-request also happens when writing to a cfg file that is located already in user-writable location (that shouldn't be necessary)

How to repeat:
- open admin section in wb
- go to config tab and make a change to config
- apply config
now workbench raises UAC dialog twice in a row

second case
- copy my.ini to  your desktop, change server profile in workbench to point to the copy in your desktop folder.
- open server instance in WB
- edit file and apply
workbench still initiates the UAC dialog

[10 Feb 2010 13:19] Maksym Yehorov

UAC raised twice cause we run two commands. First one is to create a backup and second is to put new config file.

[10 Sep 2010 5:57] Alfredo Kojima

This could be resolved by shipping a utility that would create the backup and write the file and running that utility instead of the 2 separate cmds.

[12 Sep 2010 23:22] Alfredo Kojima

Fixed by performing backup and temp file "commit" at once.

[20 Sep 2010 13:16] Johannes Taxacher

fixed in release 5.2.28

[20 Sep 2010 15:33] Tony Bedford

An entry has been added to the 5.2.28 changelog:

On Microsoft Windows, when saving a MySQL configuration file from within the Administrator, Windows displayed the UAC dialog twice.

MySQL Workbench has been changed so that Windows now only displays the UAC dialog once.