how to provide username and password for chef windows_zipfile recipe

Question

I'm trying to use windows_zipfile resource from the Chef Supermarket windows cookbook, but the source URL that I am using needs to have user privilege's to fetch any artifacts.

How can we add username and password to windows_zipfile resource?

windows_zipfile 'c:\test_app' do
  source 'https://artifactory/repoName/ApplicationName/zipfile.zip'
  action :unzip
end

Is the `source` a URL? The one mentioned in your question doesn't look like something that requires privileges. — seshadri_c, Mar 08 '21 at 18:36

seshadri_c · Answer 1 · 2021-03-09T06:02:56.470

The windows_zipfile custom resource does not have any properties to accept credentials for the URL. More importantly the cookbook as a whole is being deprecated in favour of the native archive_file resource.

Note: This resource has been deprecated as Chef Infra Client 15.0 shipped with a new archive_file resource, which natively handles multiple archive formats. Please update any cookbooks using this resource to instead use the archive_file resource.

I would recommend downloading the file using remote_file resource by providing the credentials. Then you can use archive_file (if Chef version > 15), or windows_zipfile to extract the file from local path.

remote_file 'C:\test_app.zip' do
  source 'https://artifactory/repoName/ApplicationName/zipfile.zip'
  remote_user 'user'
  remote_password 'secret'
end

# showing example for 'archive_file'
archive_file 'C:\test_app' do
  source 'C:\test_app.zip'
  action :extract
end

how to provide username and password for chef windows_zipfile recipe

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