#!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # (c) 2015, Adam Keech , Josh Ludwig # # This file is part of Ansible # # Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with Ansible. If not, see . # this is a windows documentation stub. actual code lives in the .ps1 # file of the same name ANSIBLE_METADATA = {'metadata_version': '1.0', 'status': ['preview'], 'supported_by': 'core'} DOCUMENTATION = r''' --- module: win_regedit version_added: "2.0" short_description: Add, change, or remove registry keys and values description: - Add, modify or remove registry keys and values. - More information about the windows registry from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Registry). options: path: description: - Name of registry path. - 'Should be in one of the following registry hives: HKCC, HKCR, HKCU, HKLM, HKU.' required: true aliases: [ key ] name: description: - Name of registry entry in C(path). - This is an entry in the above C(key) parameter. - If not provided, or empty we use the default name '(default)'. aliases: [ entry ] data: description: - Value of the registry entry C(name) in C(path). - Binary data should be expressed a yaml byte array or as comma separated hex values. An easy way to generate this is to run C(regedit.exe) and use the I(Export) option to save the registry values to a file. In the exported file binary values will look like C(hex:be,ef,be,ef). The C(hex:) prefix is optional. type: description: - Registry value data type. choices: - binary - dword - expandstring - multistring - string - qword default: string aliases: [ datatype ] state: description: - State of registry entry. choices: - present - absent default: present notes: - Check-mode C(-C/--check) and diff output C(-D/--diff) are supported, so that you can test every change against the active configuration before applying changes. - Beware that some registry hives (C(HKEY_USERS) in particular) do not allow to create new registry paths. author: "Adam Keech (@smadam813), Josh Ludwig (@joshludwig)" ''' EXAMPLES = r''' - name: Create registry path MyCompany win_regedit: path: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany - name: Add or update registry path MyCompany, with entry 'hello', and containing 'world' win_regedit: path: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany name: hello data: world - name: Add or update registry path MyCompany, with entry 'hello', and containing 1337 win_regedit: path: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany name: hello data: 1337 type: dword - name: Add or update registry path MyCompany, with entry 'hello', and containing binary data in hex-string format win_regedit: path: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany name: hello data: hex:be,ef,be,ef,be,ef,be,ef,be,ef type: binary - name: Add or update registry path MyCompany, with entry 'hello', and containing binary data in yaml format win_regedit: path: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany name: hello data: [0xbe,0xef,0xbe,0xef,0xbe,0xef,0xbe,0xef,0xbe,0xef] type: binary - name: Disable keyboard layout hotkey for all users (changes existing) win_regedit: path: HKU:\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Toggle name: Layout Hotkey data: 3 type: dword - name: Disable language hotkey for current users (adds new) win_regedit: path: HKCU:\Keyboard Layout\Toggle name: Language Hotkey data: 3 type: dword - name: Remove registry path MyCompany (including all entries it contains) win_regedit: path: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany state: absent - name: Remove entry 'hello' from registry path MyCompany win_regedit: path: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany name: hello state: absent ''' RETURN = r''' data_changed: description: whether this invocation changed the data in the registry value returned: success type: boolean sample: False data_type_changed: description: whether this invocation changed the datatype of the registry value returned: success type: boolean sample: True '''