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Use multiple and per-user `DistributionListUrl`s

Open conioh opened this issue 7 months ago • 3 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

  1. I want to use additional distribution sources. I am not an admin. Everything else I do with WSL doesn't require administrative privileges and doesn't affect global state and suddenly this does.

  2. I want to use multiple additional distribution sources. I can't. I can either replace the Microsoft official source or add a single additional source.

Describe the solution you'd like

  1. I want WSL to consider HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Lxss and not only the same path under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

  2. DistributionListUrlAppend should be REG_MULTI_SZ and WSL should consider the multiple sources that may appear there.

Describe alternatives you've considered

For the first issue - there aren't any. For the second issue, a workaround might be to create a local server that generates a combined JSON on the fly.

Additional context

See also #13099 for another improvement request regarding the distribution lists.

conioh avatar Jun 12 '25 15:06 conioh

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github-actions[bot] avatar Jun 12 '25 15:06 github-actions[bot]

/feature

conioh avatar Jun 12 '25 17:06 conioh

Diagnostic information
Found '/feature', adding tag 'feature'

github-actions[bot] avatar Jun 12 '25 17:06 github-actions[bot]