Hi - my team has an Ansible automation that deploys and configures a new
Windows Server system in our vSphere-based lab environment. It uses govc to
deploy an .ova created within our company that has a secure password for
the 'administrator' account, and the 'administrator' account is set to
force a password change on first login. I want to automate the password
change in our Ansible workflow. After ova deployment, the network settings
have not yet been applied.
I've tried using the vmware_vm_shell module with these values:
- name: "Set new administrator account password"
local_action:
module: vmware_vm_shell
hostname: "{{ management_vcenter_ip }}"
username: "{{ management_vcenter_user }}"
password: "{{ management_vcenter_password }}"
validate_certs: False
datacenter: "{{ datacenter }}"
vm_id: "{{ vm_name }}"
vm_username: "{{ vm_admin }}"
vm_password: "{{ vm_password }}"
vm_shell:
"C:\\Windows\\System32\\WindowsPowershell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe"
vm_shell_args: " -command Set-LocalUser -Name administrator -Password
{{vm_new_password}}"
vm_shell_cwd: "C:\\Windows\\Temp"
but am seeing this unhelpful response:
TASK [deploy-windowssql : Set new administrator account password]
***************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [ldpdd192.hop.lab.emc.com -> localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed":
false, "msg": "A general system error occurred: vix error codes = (1,
0).\n"}
Am I using vmware_vm_shell or the Powershell Set-LocalUser command
incorrectly? Or is there a better way to change the 'administrator'
password on a VM that is running but is not yet network-accessible?
Thanks!
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