A colleague helped me with the knowledge that the customization
'existing_vm' key needed to be provide with a value of True, and the
'state' key needed a value of 'present'. The module below does set the
'administrator' password when the account is set for 'change password on
first login':
- name: "Set a new administrator account password and power on the VM"
community.vmware.vmware_guest:
hostname: "{{ management_vcenter_ip }}"
username: "{{ management_vcenter_user }}"
password: "{{ management_vcenter_password }}"
datacenter: "{{ datacenter }}"
cluster: "{{ cluster }}"
name: "{{ vm_name }}"
state: present
networks:
- name: "{{ vm_network }}"
validate_certs: False
wait_for_customization: true
wait_for_ip_address: true
customization:
password: "{{ vm_password }}"
existing_vm: True
delegate_to: localhost
On Wednesday, July 5, 2023 at 1:23:46 PM UTC-4 Terry Lemons wrote:
> I've spent more hours on this, and I think a cleaner way to change the
> password of the administrator account is by using the command:
>
> net user administrator 'password'
>
> but I'm having trouble with getting this command to work. I think the
> problem is with the 'vm_shell' value, as I'm not sure which shell to use.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks
> tl
>
> On Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 8:37:50 AM UTC-4 Terry Lemons wrote:
>
>> 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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