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?
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
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From: Jeff Blaine [mailto:jblaine@kickflop.net]
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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