Problem with install if machine.config username and password are stored in registry

Hi,
For information.
It looks like the SQL Reporting Services install doesn't work properly
if you have followed Microsoft's advice and have stored the server's
.net credentials (in the machine.config <processModel> element) in the
registry using aspnet_setreg. (You would do this to remove the plain
text entries from the machine.config file).
I have tried this several times and each time, the install just reads
the username and password entries as text, and can't deal with the
fact that these entries are actually pointing to the registry for the
credentials.
When you get to the Service Account screen on the install wizard, the
section entitled "The Report Server Web service will run under the
following account:" shows the following:
registy:HKLM\SOFTWARE\...\ASPNET_SETREG,userName
(or whatever the location is to your encrypted machine.config
settings).
The install starts after you've completed all of the screens in the
wizard, but then can't start the ReportServer web service
(unsurprisingly!).
The only way that I can see to get round this is to change the
machine.config processModel section before the SQL Reporting Services
install so that the userName and password entries are present in
plaintext in the file. This isn't great - particularly if your
entries have been stored in the registry because it's impossible to
find out what the password is if you haven't got a note of it (and
maybe only the Security team were allowed to have the password, etc.).
It also means that there's a possibility that .net things will stop
working on your server while you're doing the install (ie. just
because you don't really want to have to change those entries, for
risk of typos, etc.).
I hope these comments are useful.
Regards,
Rich WFor info, the same is true for when you install SQL Reporting Services
SP1 - ie. you have to change the machine.config processModel username
and password attributes so that they are not being read from the
registry.
Regards,
Rich