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

[Eric Pardee < >]

Thanks Kevin. Unfortunately Putty is the underlying technology for
another application that my environment uses so I can't swap out Kitty
for Putty.

On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Kevin Keane (subscriptions)
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 >
 wrote:
> Rather than work around a missing feature in Putty, you could try Kitty. It
> is a fork from the Putty project that addresses many of these missing
> features. PuTTY itself seems to still be developed, but at an extremely slow
> pace; the latest release is from 2011.
>
> http://kitty.9bis.net/
>
>
> -----Original message-----
>> From:Eric Pardee 
>> <
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>> Sent: Friday 4th January 2013 19:11
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>> Subject: [chef] Windows registry key change for another user
>>
>> 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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