Hands-On Enterprise Automation with Python

Microsoft Windows

Ansible provides the win_user module to manage local Windows user accounts. This is very useful when creating users on active directory domains or Microsoft SQL databases (mssql), or when creating default accounts on normal PCs. The following example will create a user called bassem and give it the password access123. The difference here is that the password is given in plain text and not in the crypted value, as in the Unix-based system:

- hosts: localhost  tasks:    - name: create user on windows machine      win_user:        name: bassem        password: 'access123'        password_never_expires: true        account_disabled: no        account_locked: no        password_expired: no        state: present        groups:          - Administrators          - Users

The password_never_expires parameter will ...