[chef] Re: Re: Windows registry key change for another user

[Eric Pardee < >]

Thanks Paul, but my install is a bootstrap and the user I'm attempting
to add the registry entry for has not logged in.

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Paul Morton - BIA
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 wrote:
> My recollection is that the windows registry provider can do this. There is 
> code that will load the users hive (provided they have logged in before).
>
> Take a look at hkey_users. The provider should load the hive for the 
> relevant user if it is not currently loaded.
>
> On Jan 4, 2013, at 7:11 PM, "Eric Pardee" 
> <
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>  wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> I'm using the github opscode Windows cookbook (1.3.4) with Windows
>> bootstrapping and I want to add a registry entry for another user.
>>
>> My goal is to add a Putty ssh key for another user. I tried adding the key 
>> to
>> HKEY_ALL_USERS and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE but it doesn't work, which I learned 
>> is
>> on the Putty wishlist:
>> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/config-locations.html
>>
>> Does Chef windows_registry resource have the ability to execute the 
>> registry
>> key change as a different user?
>>
>> I'm assuming the answer is the powershell cookbook. Does anybody have any
>> suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks for your time.
>>
>> Eric



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