[chef] Re: Using shadow password on Windows

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Friday, June 7, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Andrea Cappelli wrote:

Ohai Chefs,

I have Windows 2008 R2 client with chef 11.4.4 installed through msi

available on Opscode web site (http://www.opscode.com/chef/install.msi)

I would create users using shadow password, but for this I need the

ruby-shadow gem, which seems not to be shipped with the installer

I tried to install using DevKit but without luck

Can anyone point me to some docs on how to install it?

Thanks

The ruby-shadow gem is for managing the /etc/shadow file on Unix machines. Chef should not be hitting the code path that requires ruby-shadow on Windows. Can you post the error message you get, an example of cookbook code that causes this, and the output of `ohai platform`? 

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Daniel DeLeo