Setting the UAC 'Publisher' Field for a NSIS Installer

Question

When I open my installer(that I created using NSIS), the UAC dialog appears with information about my installer. The field Publisher is \'unknown\'. I\'ve heard of digi

Answer 1

To give some more details about that command, these are the lines I have used with version NSIS 3.03 with the !finalize command.

Important: You will need to provide the codesign certificate password inside passwd.txt file placed in same directory as your certificate.pfx file.

!define PRODUCT_NAME "def"
!define PRODUCT_VERSION "1.0.0.0"
!define OutputFileName "def.exe"

Name "${PRODUCT_NAME} ${PRODUCT_VERSION}"
OutFile "${OutputFileName}"
InstallDir "abc"
ShowInstDetails show

!define /file OutFileSignPassword ".\CodeSign\passwd.txt"
!define OutFileSignCertificate ".\CodeSign\certificate.pfx"
!define OutFileSignSHA1   ".\CodeSign\signtool.exe sign /f ${OutFileSignCertificate} /p ${OutFileSignPassword} /fd sha1   /t  http://timestamp.comodoca.com /v" 
!define OutFileSignSHA256 ".\CodeSign\signtool.exe sign /f ${OutFileSignCertificate} /p ${OutFileSignPassword} /fd sha256 /tr http://timestamp.comodoca.com?td=sha256 /td sha256 /as /v" 

!finalize "PING -n 1 127.0.0.1 >nul"                                # Delay Next Step to ensure File isn't locked by previous Process 
!finalize "${OutFileSignSHA1} .\${OutputFileName}"                  # CodeSigning with SHA1/AuthentiCode 
!finalize "PING -n 5 127.0.0.1 >nul"                                # Delay Next Step to ensure File isn't locked by previous Process 
!finalize "${OutFileSignSHA256} .\${OutputFileName}"                # CodeSigning with SHA256/RFC 3161  

CRCCheck on

Section
    DetailPrint "Hello World"
SectionEnd

After that you will be able to see an output similar to these lines:

The following certificate was selected:
    Issued to: Your Company
    Issued by: COMODO RSA Code Signing CA
    Expires:   Sun Mar 15 00:59:59 2020
    SHA1 hash: 0A12223C465069798D940317273C4F56A9BCC6D9

Done Adding Additional Store
Successfully signed: .\def.exe

Number of files successfully Signed: 1

Number of warnings: 0

Number of errors: 0