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Mastering Ansible - Third Edition
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Mastering Ansible - Third Edition

by James Freeman, Jesse Keating
March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
412 pages
9h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Authentication mechanisms

Ansible, in fact, supports five different Windows authentication mechanisms as follows:

  • Basic: Supports local accounts only
  • Certificate: Supports local accounts only, conceptually similar to SSH key-based authentication
  • Kerberos: Supports AD accounts
  • NTLM: Supports both local and AD accounts
  • CredSSP: Supports both local and AD accounts

It is worth noting that Kerberos, NTLM, and CredSSP all provide message encryption over HTTP, which improves security. However, we have already seen how easy it is to set up WinRM over HTTPS, and WinRM management over plain HTTP is not enabled by default anyway, so we will assume that the communication channel is already encrypted. WinRM is a SOAP protocol meaning it must run over ...

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ISBN: 9781789951547