[chef] Re: Re: Modifying Windows Service Logon As

[David Petzel < >]

The logonas_user is relatively easy to account for via the registry provider (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\<service_name>\ObjectName). The logonas_password is a whole other story and is something we have yet to figure out a solution to on our end as well. 

The challenge we've hit is its easy to "create" the service with the proper password, however managing that in the event of a password change is problematic. It would be great if the provider you've started could make it into the community cookbook with support for managing the password. I just noticed that there is some password logic that I don't fully understand at https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/util/windows/net_user.rb#L125. I'm curious if that same logic could used for the service account password?

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:07 PM, James Kessler < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I added a resource to the Windows cookbook to create/delete services. I'm not sure about the "Log On As" parameter but this should get you started:

https://github.com/jkess/windows/blob/service/providers/service.rb