[chef] Re: Re: Using shadow password on Windows

[Andrea Cappelli < >]

Il 10/06/2013 18:04, Daniel DeLeo ha scritto:
> The ruby-shadow gem is for managing the /etc/shadow file on Unix 
> machines. 

Uhm, ok, so i misunderstood the documentation.

So the right question is: how can i set a password for a windws user 
knowing only the hash?

If i do

user "test"
    password "$1$wCpUAC5P$NiLw8nU0NjBahe0UPOSo5/"
end

on a linux box the user test gets the password "test", in windows it 
gets the password $1$wCpUAC5P$NiLw8nU0NjBahe0UPOSo5/

I (wrongly) supposed that with ruby-shadow gem I would obtain the same 
result in both environment

> 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`?

I have no error message, ohai platform returns
[
  'windows'
]

Thanks