Use multiple and per-user `DistributionListUrl`s
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Description
**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.
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Research direction
Start by locating the WSL code that reads DistributionListUrlAppend and the Lxss registry settings; the issue names the HKCU and HKLM paths but no files or tests. Confirm how per-user settings and multiple REG_MULTI_SZ sources should be combined, then verify behavior for both administrative and non-administrative users.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100