If you try to activate a feature with a custom timer job from inside a SharePoint Site, you will get the following error: The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object 'proc_putObject'
Of course, there are several possible ways, how to work around this issue:
- You could give the IIS Application Pool User Account the appropriate permission
- You could turn off unsafe updates in your code
- You could change the permissions of your SharePoint config database
Everyone of these actions breaks the rule of separated permissions. The right way would be to rescope your feature and activate it through Central Administration. Ideally, it is another person who has to activate the feature, as well (namely the Farm Admin ;-)).
