This will be because you are using the full result from win_shell which
includes things like changed, rc, stdout, stderr, etc. You need to do `-
win_shell: "{{ pingpath.stdout |trim }} 9.9.9.9" and say you want to use
the stdout value of the result which contains the full path. The | trim is
The only time this error ever appears is if you have a timeout set on the
task [1]. Check to ensure you don't have that config entry set
'ansible-config dump --only-changed' or haven't set it on the task play.
[1]
> That of course assumes that the ActiveDirectory powershell module is
available on Linux.
It isn't, it's a Windows only component that cannot be installed
independently. What OP wants to do with the microsoft.ad.x modules cannot
be done outside of a Windows target host. They would have to
Theoretically this is all possible but there are a few things that are
impediments to getting this all working.
- Python modules can technically run on Windows but our general
module_utils (basic.py) use libraries that are
- PowerShell modules can technically run on non-Windows but a
uce the
> issue, i am using ansible 2.14. The only change between working and not
> working is setting a dummy password. I started with using the ssh args
> which did not work.
>
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2023, 4:08 PM jbor...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> > ansible wants a pa
re if the
> ansible team is planning to address this or not.
>
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2023, 5:35 AM jbor...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> You can control what arguments Ansible uses to invoke the ssh binary
>> with. See ssh_extra_args [1] for ways to set extra arguments. You can run
&
You can control what arguments Ansible uses to invoke the ssh binary with.
See ssh_extra_args [1] for ways to set extra arguments. You can run Ansible
with -vvv and it will show you the full ssh command being run on each
connection.
[1]
Sure you can run powershell.exe directly with raw/shell/command as the
executable but as I mentioned the localhost on WSL refers to the Linux
host. The only way to run the Windows PowerShell modules is to target the
host through winrm/psrp so the remote host is on the Windows side.
On
The Ansible engine side only runs on the python that it was installed in,
which in your case is 2.7.5. The ansible_python_interpreter controls what
Python is used to run the modules on the remote target. You can see what
Python was invoked for that scenario by running Ansible with -vvv. If you
Localhost on the WSL side is the WSL Linux host itself and not the Windows
one. Unfortunately you still need to target your Windows localhost using
the winrm or psrp connection type.
Thanks
Jordan
On Thursday, June 29, 2023 at 1:50:54 AM UTC+10 John Petro wrote:
> If I am reading the output
Literally set `ansible_shell_type=powershell` for your Windows hosts. It's
what's in the docs you were linked to.
On Thursday, June 29, 2023 at 1:40:51 AM UTC+10 gonzalo diaz larenas wrote:
> I already did the generation of the public key, then I copied it to the
> host that has Windows Pro, I
Based on your screenshot you didn't define ansible_shell_type for the
Windows hosts as per the guide. This is crucial for getting ssh to work
with Windows as it must match the remote shell that's being used, in your
case that's powershell.
On Monday, June 26, 2023 at 11:06:35 PM UTC+10 gonzalo
2.3 - 2.9 was a fairly rapid time when it came to become on windows. IIRC
2.8 introduced password less become functionality which added more
stringent checks onto the SYSTEM token that was used in the process. One of
these checks was to see if the token had the SeTcbPrivilege associated with
This is most likely the double hop problem where the WinRM process on the
Windows side is unable to authenticate itself when talking to a downstream
server [1]
There are a few ways you can solve this
- Use become on the task [2]
- Use CredSSP as your authentication protocol with WinRM
Try just doing - win_command: '{{ install_app_download_dir
}}\Prerequisites\install_rabbitmq.bat'. You could also prefix that command
with cmd.exe /c path\to\install.bat and see if it helps. Another option is
to use '- win_shell: exit (Start-Process -FilePath ... -Wait
-PassThru).ExitCode' to
Most likely there is no common cipher support between the Ansible host and
the remote Windows host. Server 2008 is quite old and only supports a very
limited set of cipher suites. This is an issue because newer hosts and
OpenSSL they ship with now define a more retrictive set of protocols and
If it's an msi, the module can scan the package itself to get the
product_id. If it's an exe then it would need the product_id or one of the
creates_* options to try and add some idempotency.
On Friday, December 23, 2022 at 12:24:04 PM UTC+10 pyyg...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> About
The problem here is that it's using Basic auth for the authentication which
only works for local accounts. You either need to setup Kerberos auth or
use ntlm. Both can be specified with ansible_winrm_transport (ntlm or
kerberos).
On Wednesday, December 7, 2022 at 2:31:20 AM UTC+10
e script.ps1 or win_shell as above?
>- Why did failure of the PS script not fail the win_shell task?
>
> Thank you and have a great day.
> On Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 10:28:06 PM UTC-5 jbor...@gmail.com
> wrote:
>
>> To truly replicate the behaviour of running it inte
To truly replicate the behaviour of running it interatively (or at least as
close as you can get) you need to specify a password for become.
- win_shell: ...
become: true
become_method: runas
vars:
ansible_become_user: '{{ ansible_user }}'
ansible_become_pass: '{{ ansible_password
The community.windows tests require the ansible.windows, and
chocolatey.chocolatey to be installed as per the requirements
https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.windows/blob/main/tests/requirements.yml.
Unfortunately it is very particular as to where the collection actually is
So to verify the host is actually listening run 'winrm e
winrm/config/listener' you should see if there is an actual listener for
HTTPS/5986. You can also use your favourite command to check if the port is
reachable, e.g. 'nc -zvw10 192.168.1.2 5986'. Once you've verified that you
can actually
For the connection timed out either means the server is not listening on
that port (5986) or a firewall is in the way.
The bad handshake might mean the server doesn't support a TLS protocol or
cipher suite the client supports. On older Windows hosts (pre 2016) there
is a limited set of cipher
That's not true, I do it all the time. The raw yaml value needs to be
quoted but you still need to quote the inner string value to make sure it's
interpreted as a string, e.g.
when: '"RUNNING" in job_check.stdout_lines'
On Tuesday, August 16, 2022 at 6:20:02 AM UTC+10 walte...@nist.gov wrote:
Have a look at the warning Ansible is giving you, it is telling you it was
unable to use your configured remote target value and forced
`inventory_hostname`. Solve that and you will probably solve this problem.
On Tuesday, June 14, 2022 at 4:30:08 AM UTC+10 indiem...@gmail.com wrote:
> I could
lue must look like this:
>
> "headers": {
>
> "Authorization": "Token token="1234" "
> }
>
>
> El Monday, February 21, 2022 a la(s) 6:21:54 PM UTC-6, jbor...@gmail.com
> escribió:
>
>> > When I attempt to do i
The problem here is you are telling it to copy the file to the location
E:\OtomasyonFiles\WINDOWSISO\win2019 which is a folder. Add a trailing \ to
the dest or use the full path to where you want the file to be
('E:\OtomasyonFiles\WINDOWSISO\win2019\autounattend.xml') so it knows to
place the
> When I attempt to do it, the quotes are being parsed into JSON and the
token is enclosed by backslashes.
Why do you believe this is the case, if it's due to the backslashes
appearing in the task output that's just due to the output being encoded as
json. The literal value is what that json
It's definitely not so simple, there are numerous complexities around the
worker model used in Ansible and it is heavily reliant on `fork()` to
provide some features that improve the performance. The use of `fork()`
wasn't chosen to annoy Windows users by not being supported there but how
the
You can, just need to set the var to ansible_remote_tmp, see the var entry
for it
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/sh_shell.html#parameter-remote_tmp.
On Wednesday, January 19, 2022 at 3:26:51 AM UTC+10
chris.mcd...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
> Roberto,
>
> Sorry,
The error indicates you are using too Ansible 2.9 with the ansible.windows
collection. The collection in question only supports 2.10 or newer due to
it's dependency on functionality that was introduced in 2.10 or later.
On Saturday, December 4, 2021 at 9:07:21 AM UTC+10 dick@geant.org wrote:
Have a look at the output of win_updates, it will tell you what updates
were selected and the ones that were not. The ones that are "filtered" (not
selected) will have a reason which states why they were filtered out. If
the update doesn't appear in the output at all then Windows couldn't find
My comment in that issue still applies you have a play that looks somewhat
like the following
- name: my play
hosts: my-win-hosts
gather_facts: yes # If omitted the default is yes, will always run
unless you set this as no
tasks:
- name: Create A record
You cannot. Each win_dsc task is an adhoc implementation of a DSC resource
and they have no idea about other DSC tasks you may have invoked. Ansible
tasks are run sequentially so running 2 DSC tasks after each other will
ensure both are run and the 2nd is dependent on the first. If you wish to
If the path to the executable has a space you need to quote it,
unfortunately yaml makes that a bit more difficult as whatever quote you
start the value on you also need to end with that quote. There are 2
solutions I recommend to you:
* Wrap the whole value in a single quote and use an inner
The error represents ERROR_LOGON_FAILURE which according to
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-erref/18d8fbe8-a967-4f1c-ae50-99ca8e491d2d
means
> Logon failure: Unknown user name or bad password.
You will want to be 100% sure you have the correct username/password
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/windows/win_certificate_store_module.html
On Friday, August 13, 2021 at 11:04:59 AM UTC+10 zil...@gmail.com wrote:
> Here's the manual procedure i'm trying to automate. Thanks
>
>
>1.
>
>In Windows, click Start > Run.
>
You have a typo, it's 'state' not 'status'. The default value is 'state:
file' and due to historical behaviour 'state: file' will not create the
file.
On Tuesday, June 22, 2021 at 11:35:04 AM UTC+10 zil...@gmail.com wrote:
> Ansible 2.11.0
>
> I created an I: disk partition on my Windows 2019
When you use win_package on a file that isn't an .msi you need to provide
the unique product_id so the module can do it's idempotency checks.
Typically this is a GUID value as stored in the registry but it may be any
other string the executable sets there's really no common format for .exe
You are looking win_file with the values of FilesOver30.files but setting
the path for each of those loops to unc_path. This will just run the same
thing, deleting that UNC path for every loop iteration. What you want to do
is set 'path: "{{ item.path }}"' so that path is set to each of the
Your Python version is too old, the managed node requires Python 2.7 or 3.5
or newer
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html#managed-node-requirements.
On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 4:54:54 AM UTC+10 riz...@gmail.com wrote:
> Having the same issue as:
it need to get as an Administrator again?
>
>
>
> On Monday, April 19, 2021 at 12:55:04 PM UTC+1 jbor...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> There isn't unfortunately, your security team should hopefully be aware
>> that this doesn't prevent Mimikatz attacks just makes it slightly harder.
>
> still same error.
>
> On Thursday, April 15, 2021 at 10:53:17 PM UTC+1 jbor...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> The primary reason for not being able to get the SYSTEM token (required
>> for passwordless become on Windows) is your connection user doesn't have
>> the SeDebugPr
sed that while reading, honestly I mostly skip
> down to the usage.
> I did not think about using the UNC path and yes, I will be able to
> utilize the same account for both servers thank goodness.
>
> On Thursday, April 15, 2021 at 4:45:22 PM UTC-5 jbor...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> E
The primary reason for not being able to get the SYSTEM token (required for
passwordless become on Windows) is your connection user doesn't have the
SeDebugPrivilege. This should be assigned to Admins users by default but
sometimes custom environment settings remove this privilege. You can use
Each task is run in it's own shell, you cannot map a drive and expect to be
able to use it in an Ansible task. It even says it in the documentation for
win_mapped_drive
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/windows/win_mapped_drive_module.html
> You cannot use this
to thank you, I was reading your
> excelelnt article on Windows Mapped drives the other day.
> Still some testing to do on that but I may have a question there. If so
> shall I put it on this list?
>
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 at 00:12, jbor...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> The way t
The way to reset the connection in Ansible is to run
- meta: reset_connection
This will delete the existing control persist socket so the subsequent task
will use a new connection.
On Saturday, March 27, 2021 at 10:36:26 AM UTC+10 needabettername wrote:
> My explanation in the first message
You are using Ansible 2.9 and the ansible.windows collections does not work
with this Ansible version (requires 2.10). This is one of the reasons why
the minimum version for that collection is 2.10.
Thanks
Jordan
On Friday, March 19, 2021 at 1:12:31 AM UTC+10 jayantya...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> "changed": false,
>> "module_stderr": "Parameter format not correct - >\r\n",
>> "module_stdout": "",
>> "msg": "MODULE FAILURE\nSee stdout/stderr for the exact error",
>> "
The error is literally trying to run a syntax that works for cmd.exe but in
PowerShell hence the error 'Parameter format not correct - >nul'. The fix
for this is to either set ansible_shell_type=powershell or change the
default shell back to CMD on your Win32 OpenSSH config. If you've already
Your dest should have 2 backslashes at the start, right now it's being
treated as a local path. Even with a UNC path you are most likely going to
hit the double hop problem with delegating your credentials. Make sure you
use Kerberos with credential delegation, CredSSP, or use become on the
Any Windows module supports become, it's implementation is completely
independent from modules themselves. In the majority of situations a module
is run as Administrator but there are a few cases where that may not apply.
To test it out run
- win_whoami:
You can also run it with become to
n_shell starts)
>
> Den tors 4 feb. 2021 kl 13:02 skrev jbor...@gmail.com :
>
>> I think the more important question here is what are your win_shell
>> commands actually running. If it's spawning another process then that could
>> be taking control of the conhost
I think the more important question here is what are your win_shell
commands actually running. If it's spawning another process then that could
be taking control of the conhost used by WinRM keeping the Ansible wrapper
process still running in the backround. Otherwise if you are just running
include_tasks
>>
>> The error appears to be in
>> '/etc/ansible/playbooks/shares/greenfield/greenfield_share_create.yml':
>> line 294, column 5, but may
>> be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
>>
>> The offending line appears to be:
>
How do you expect to download a role from the internet if you don't have
access to the internet in the first place. An offline flag would only work
if you've already downloaded the roles and placed it somewhere, if that's
the case then just copy it into the roles directory like normal roles.
You are ignoring errors on your win_command task that is actually
installing SQL so when you go to configure the service it is failing
because it isn't installed. You should only ignore_errors if you truely
don't care if it fails or not, if it is failing then you need to solve that
problem
- Test play
>
>
> #
>
> - name: test me
> ansible.windows.win_shell:
> args:
> cmd: echo 'hi'
>
> Results
>
> fatal: [SERVER.DOMAIN.net]: FAILED! => {
>
> "changed": false,
> "msg": "Get-AnsibleParam: Missing re
This doesn't really sound like an Ansible question, dotnet build is
complaining it can't find the assembly and that's just what Ansible is
reporting. YOu need to figure out the correct install steps first then you
can do the same with an Ansible task.
On Monday, February 1, 2021 at 6:36:50 PM
The reason why it always reports a change is because win_command/win_shell
always reports a change, it doesn't know what command it is running and
whether it is making a change or not.
You have 2 ways to solve this:
- Add the creates arg to win_command that tells it to run the command
WinRM certificate auth require certain extensions and authentication
methods to be enabled, you can't just use a server authentication
certificate that you would use for a website for this. We even document how
to create these certs using PowerShell or OpenSSL
What Ansible version are you running, does it also fail with the same error
if you did just "- ansible.windows.win_shell: echo 'hi'". Does win_command
work, what about just "win_shell" and not the FQCN.
On Friday, January 29, 2021 at 2:58:30 AM UTC+10 jesse...@gmail.com wrote:
> Crickets
> :(
Just loop the services entry and then your item is item.name.
- win_service:
name: '{{ item.name }}'
state: started
with_items: '{{ service.services }}'
This works because service.services is a list that contains a dictionary so
you are looping each entry and then getting the name key
If your default shell is PowerShell you need to tell Ansible that with
'ansible_shell_type=powershell'. Right now it's using cmd hence the cmd
syntax which isn't valid in PowerShell.
On Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 12:53:05 PM UTC+10 ryan...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm aware that using SSH with
Not through the win_updates module [1] and I doubt it will be added at any
point in the future due to the lack of a public API. What you need to do is
source the update file yourself and use either win_command or win_package
to manually install it.
[1] -
A few things
- Each task is run in a completely separate shell from each other,
running net use in a previous task won't have any affect on any subsequent
tasks
- Don't try to use mapped drives with Ansible, or really any other
non-interactive purpose
- Mapped drives are
If you want to use Kerberos then yes you need to be able to contact the DC.
That's part of the Kerberos protocol and nothing can change that.
On Friday, October 30, 2020 at 9:19:39 AM UTC+10 vel...@gmail.com wrote:
> I have a ansible control box and have configured it to manage windows
>
You need to use win_ping and not ping. It's trying to run Python code in a
PowerShell engine which fails.
On Thursday, October 29, 2020 at 11:50:28 AM UTC+10 dwiz wrote:
> This is verbose output:
>
> ansible 2.9.11
> config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
> configured module search path =
The ping and win_ping modules aren't doing an ICMP ping, they are checking
to see if Ansible can connect to the host and execute a very basic module.
In your case it's able to connect to the host but it's enable to
authenticate using the credentials you have specified. See
There is an error when trying to execute PowerShell causing the process to
stop and subsequently close the stdin pipe that Ansible is writing to. Can
you run with a higher verbosity so that Ansible shows the full stdout and
stderr from the process (-vv). That will output the full error
possible to make it look like this like it does
>> on Linux (adding the filename and the [title] block)?:
>>
>> "ansible_local": {
>> * "local": {*
>> *"local_facts": {*
>> "ami_id": "ami-0701e7be9
A further FYI, do not include the | ConvertTo-Json part, just output the
hashtable or array directory, the issue has been updated with more
information as to why that is.
On Thursday, September 17, 2020 at 9:01:23 PM UTC+10 jbor...@gmail.com
wrote:
> Just an FYI there may be a
to do as well.
On Thursday, September 17, 2020 at 8:50:48 PM UTC+10 jbor...@gmail.com
wrote:
> Just try it out and see for yourself. I have placed the following script
> at C:\Windows\TEMP\facts\my_facts.ps1 with the contents
>
> @{
> my_custom_fact = 'value'
> my_c
Just try it out and see for yourself. I have placed the following script at
C:\Windows\TEMP\facts\my_facts.ps1 with the contents
@{
my_custom_fact = 'value'
my_complex_custom_fact = @{
hello = 'world'
}
} | ConvertTo-Json -Compress
This script converts a PowerShell hashtable
mand?.
>
> Which in my case my ansible host is a Linux mint machine.
>
> Again thank you for your response and taking the time out to reply and
> help!
>
> On Monday, September 14, 2020 at 9:29:06 PM UTC+1 jbor...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> You've set the become vars but
You've set the become vars but you haven't actually turned on become, have
a read through
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/become.html#become-flags-for-windows
especially the "copy a file from a fileshare with custom credentials"
example.
If you are trying to copy a file
You cannot really do that. The only option would be to run it in something
like WSL but even then there are caveats. You should be using a Linux host
to run the Ansible control node.
On Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 8:16:04 PM UTC+10 surabhy...@gmail.com
wrote:
> I want to install ansible
Looks like you are running on macOS based on the paths in your
ansible-playbook --version output. There is a known problem with running
Ansible on macOS [1] where certain system calls on the forked Ansible
process cause the process to get killed by the kernel. This is a pretty
fundamental
service reserves the /wsman URL prefix. To prevent conflicts with IIS,
> administrators should ensure that any websites hosted on IIS do not use the
> /wsman URL prefix.",
> "desktop_interact": false,
> "display_name": "Windows Remote Management (WS-Management)",
> "exists": true,
> "name": "WinRM
I still don't fully see the issue, the first call to win_updates found 4
updates and no updates were filtered. The screenshot you shared show that 4
updates were available which matches the 4 that are in log. Based on the
logs it was run in check mode so it didn't actually install the updates
null.", "At line:4
> char:20", "+ Stop-Service -Name $serviceName", "+
> ", "+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:)
> [Stop-Service], ParameterBindin ", " gValidationException", "+
"unreachable": true}
>
> hmmm.. I believe credentials should be read from host file! I am not sure
> why it's not reading.
>
> Thanks,
> Work Hard
>
>
> On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 8:53:48 PM UTC-7, jbor...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> You need to share the
You need to share the error you are getting back, right now we cannot tell
what is going wrong.
On Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at 8:32:50 AM UTC+10 workema...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
> Kerberos authentication is failing on some servers even after providing
> credentials in host file.
>
> *Host
So breaking down your error message you get the following PowerShell
error(s)
FINDSTR: Bad command line
Stop-Service : Cannot find any service with service name 'ColdFusion 9 - '.
At C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\servicerestart.ps1:7 char:1
+ Stop-Service -Name "ColdFusion 9 -
1. You have a typo when you specify kerberos auth, it should be
'ansible_winrm_transport' but you have 'anisble_winrm_transport'
2. validate_certs: false doesn't affect WinRM cert validation, that's
just a standard var
3. You shouldn't have to set
Theres the laps_password
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/lookup/laps_password.html
lookup that you can use to retrieve a password set by LAPS from AD.
Unfortunately it requires a few extra bits to be installed on your host
like OpenLDAP but it's definitely possible.
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