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Wojtek Mlodzianowski
Wojtek Mlodzianowski

Reputation: 398

How to configure Ansible with Cygwin on windows hosts

Since my company needs time to consider security issues with WinRM which is used by Ansible to manage windows hosts I was thinking about doing it via Cygwin ssh connection which we already have installed. Is this even possible? I tried to setup env variables like that:

        ansible_connection: ssh
        ansible_shell_type: cmd

End I'm trying to create a folder with the folliwng playbook:

- name: Ensure C:\Temp exists
win_file:
    path: C:\Temp
    state: directory

Gathering Facts is succesfull, but I'm getting: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Unhandled exception while executing module: The system cannot find the path specified"}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1692

Answers (1)

xCovelus - Слава Україні
xCovelus - Слава Україні

Reputation: 738

In theory, Ansible, since v.2.8, supports doing connections through SSH, new windows even come with a Microsoft fork of OpenSSH. I am having trouble to make it work (that's how I ended up here), but I recommend you to take a look to the following links:

If you can do SSH using the PK, but you get an unreachable from Ansible, you may need to check also this:

For Windows Server 2019/10's OpenSSH configuration:

Upvotes: 1

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