[chef] RE: Setting local Windows user's password

[Kapil Shardha < >]

I was working on this issue this morning only. The way I do it is by storing 
the password in an encrypted data bag and then decrypt it during compile time:

# Retrieving local admin password at compile
secret = Chef::EncryptedDataBagItem.load_secret(secret_file_path)
app_local_admin_pass = Chef::EncryptedDataBagItem.load(node['databag_name'], 
"app_local_admin_pass", secret)
node.default['temp_app_pass']  = app_local_admin_pass["pass"]

Then use User resource:

user "CounselingAdmin" do
        password "#{node['temp_app_pass']}"
        action :create
end

-Kapil



-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Blaine 
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Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 3:43 PM
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Subject: [chef] Setting local Windows user's password

Last I checked in on this about a year ago, it was not possible to set a 
Windows user's password via Chef unless the password was stored in cleartext.

Does anyone know if this is still the case?

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