[ansible-project] "msg": "basic: the specified credentials were rejected by the server" - Please help

[Chris Jackson]

Hi All,

I am running a playbook (from AWX) against a Windows Server 2016 and it is 
failing with:-

{
    "msg": "basic: the specified credentials were rejected by the server",
    "unreachable": true,
    "changed": false
}

I am using winrm as the transport and am now going using basic 
authentication over http.

My winrm config (winrm get winrm/config) is as follows:-

Config
    MaxEnvelopeSizekb = 500
    MaxTimeoutms = 60000
    MaxBatchItems = 32000
    MaxProviderRequests = 4294967295
    Client
        NetworkDelayms = 5000
        URLPrefix = wsman
        AllowUnencrypted = true
        Auth
            Basic = true
            Digest = true
            Kerberos = true
            Negotiate = true
            Certificate = true
            CredSSP = false
        DefaultPorts
            HTTP = 5985
            HTTPS = 5986
        TrustedHosts
    Service
        RootSDDL = 
O:NSG:BAD:P(A;;GA;;;BA)(A;;GR;;;IU)S:P(AU;FA;GA;;;WD)(AU;SA;GXGW;;;WD)
        MaxConcurrentOperations = 4294967295
        MaxConcurrentOperationsPerUser = 1500
        EnumerationTimeoutms = 240000
        MaxConnections = 300
        MaxPacketRetrievalTimeSeconds = 120
        AllowUnencrypted = true
        Auth
            Basic = true
            Kerberos = true
            Negotiate = true
            Certificate = false
            CredSSP = false
            CbtHardeningLevel = Relaxed
        DefaultPorts
            HTTP = 5985
            HTTPS = 5986
        IPv4Filter = *
        IPv6Filter = *
        EnableCompatibilityHttpListener = false
        EnableCompatibilityHttpsListener = false
        CertificateThumbprint
        AllowRemoteAccess = true
    Winrs
        AllowRemoteShellAccess = true
        IdleTimeout = 7200000
        MaxConcurrentUsers = 2147483647
        MaxShellRunTime = 2147483647
        MaxProcessesPerShell = 2147483647
        MaxMemoryPerShellMB = 2147483647
        MaxShellsPerUser = 2147483647

The following group_vars are set:-

ansible_winrm_transport: basic
ansible_winrm_scheme: http
ansible_ssh_port: 5985
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore

oh and the playbook run also generates a security event (id 4625) on the 
managed node as follows:-

Failure Information:
    Failure Reason:        Unknown user name or bad password.
    Status:            0xC000006D
    Sub Status:        0xC0000064



The password is correctly stored in the AWX credential. I'm at a loss as to 
the problem

Any pointers will be greatly appreciated as i have googled this to death

Kind Regards

Chris.


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