#!/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 DOCUMENTATION = ''' --- module: win_regedit version_added: "2.0" short_description: Add, Edit, or Remove Registry Keys and Values description: - Add, Edit, or Remove Registry Keys and Values using ItemProperties Cmdlets options: key: description: - Name of Registry Key required: true default: null aliases: [] value: description: - Name of Registry Value required: true default: null aliases: [] data: description: - Registry Value Data. Binary data should be expressed as comma separated hex values. An easy way to generate this is to run regedit.exe and use the 'Export' option to save the registry values to a file. In the file binary values will look something like this: hex:be,ef,be,ef. The 'hex:' prefix is optional. required: false default: null aliases: [] datatype: description: - Registry Value Data Type required: false choices: - binary - dword - expandstring - multistring - string - qword default: string aliases: [] state: description: - State of Registry Value required: false choices: - present - absent default: present aliases: [] author: "Adam Keech (@smadam813), Josh Ludwig (@joshludwig)" ''' EXAMPLES = ''' # Creates Registry Key called MyCompany. win_regedit: key: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany # Creates Registry Key called MyCompany, # a value within MyCompany Key called "hello", and # data for the value "hello" containing "world". win_regedit: key: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany value: hello data: world # Creates Registry Key called MyCompany, # a value within MyCompany Key called "hello", and # data for the value "hello" containing "1337" as type "dword". win_regedit: key: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany value: hello data: 1337 datatype: dword # Creates Registry Key called MyCompany, # a value within MyCompany Key called "hello", and # binary data for the value "hello" as type "binary". win_regedit: key: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany value: hello data: hex:be,ef,be,ef,be,ef,be,ef,be,ef datatype: binary # Delete Registry Key MyCompany # NOTE: Not specifying a value will delete the root key which means # all values will be deleted win_regedit: key: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany state: absent # Delete Registry Value "hello" from MyCompany Key win_regedit: key: HKCU:\Software\MyCompany value: hello state: absent ''' RETURN = ''' data_changed: description: whether this invocation changed the data in the registry value returned: always type: boolean sample: false data_type_changed: description: whether this invocation changed the datatype of the registry value returned: always type: boolean sample: true '''