Hi, I am facing same issue even after changing ansible_ssh_password to ansible_password.
Facing issue with 401 unauthorized error for winrm connection. Need help On Friday, November 13, 2015 at 3:08:16 AM UTC+5:30, [email protected] wrote: > Try changing: > > ansible_ssh_password=ansible > > to > > ansible_ssh_pass=ansible > > That tripped me up with 1.9.4. > > Same thing would apply to your windows.yml. > > Kev > > > On Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 5:48:13 PM UTC+1, Tianwei Liu wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am having this weird problem that my ansible will always show 401 error >> when trying to connect my windows machine via winrm. Although I can use >> pywinrm with no problem at all authenticating with the exact same account >> and password. >> >> My inventory: >> [windows] >> 192.168.2.3 >> >> [windows:vars] >> ansible_ssh_user=ansible >> ansible_ssh_password=ansible >> ansible_ssh_port=5986 >> ansible_connection=winrm >> >> I can run the example from: https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm and get >> results with no problem but my ansible ping results in 401. >> >> $ ansible windows -i inventory.yml -m win_ping -vvvv >> >> <192.168.2.3> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: ansible on PORT 5986 >> TO 192.168.2.3 >> >> <192.168.2.3> WINRM CONNECT: transport=plaintext endpoint= >> https://192.168.2.3:5986/wsman >> >> <192.168.2.3> WINRM CONNECTION ERROR: 401 Unauthorized. >> >> 192.168.2.3 | FAILED => 401 Unauthorized. >> >> -- 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/c9c6b90d-04ad-4452-ad08-8aec83c13743%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
