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

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We just use chef-vault (I know shameless plug) to manage the password.

From: David Petzel 
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Date: Monday, January 6, 2014 7:25 PM
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Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Modifying Windows Service Logon As

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 
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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