Interesting. My guess would be that this works, as Ansible doesn't do anything outside the logged-on user's profile (until you start pushing tasks that require admin access, of course). What is the exact error you're getting? Can you use the "raw" module to do something simple like list the contents of your profile or something? I'd really like to see the full verbose log from your console aswell.
On Saturday, February 20, 2016 at 5:35:17 PM UTC+1, Julian Saunders wrote: > > Hello, > > I use Ansible to manage Linux hosts and just recently had a requirement to > manage Windows Servers. > > I have Ansible working against a Windows 2012 R2 host using an account > (test_user) that is part of the "administrators" group. > > I would like reduce the rights of test_user, so it is no longer in the > "administrators" group, but can still connect and copy files to its own > homedrive, and basically run commands that a user that is part of the > "Users" group can. > > On removing the user Ansible provives the following error: > > fatal: [servername] => 401 Unauthorized. basic auth failed > > > I did a bit of research and found the user needed to be part of the > "Remote Management Users", this would allow test_user to run Powershell > remotely. I tested this from another Windows host, and yes it works. > > > PS> $options=New-PSSessionOption -SkipCACheck -SkipCNCheck > PS> Enter-PSSession -ComputerName servername -Credential > servername\test_user -UseSSL -SessionOption $options > > > However via Ansible I get the following error: > > fatal: [servername] => failed to exec cmd PowerShell -NoProfile > -NonInteractive -EncodedCommand... > > > Does anyone know if it's possible to run Ansible against a Windows hosts > with a non admin user? > > Thanks. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/8001f5be-de14-47f7-b688-cb46ab77e96e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
