[chef] Writing a cross-platform template definition

[Simon Detheridge < >]

Hi,

I'm trying to write a recipe that works on Linux and Windows.

If I write:
  user "root"
in a template, Windows throws an error declaring "No mapping between account 
names and security IDs was done."

The docs suggest that I should be using 'rights' instead of 'user', but this 
means I'd have to write all of my templates or recipes twice. Is there a 
workaround? (Can I map 'root' to 'Administrator'?)

I can set a 'root_user' attribute on my nodes, but this makes the cookbook 
non-usable outside of my environment. Is there an accepted way to accomplish 
this?

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