set_fact for Windows domain login

[Mike Fennemore]

I have a specific use that requires the Domain\User Windows format.

My assumption was

- set_fact:

        my_login: "{{ ansible_env['USERDOMAIN'] }}\{{ ansible_env['USERNAME'] }}"

This doesn't seem to work however. How do I combine the two envrionmental variable with a \ between them?

[J Hawkesworth]

When you are inside double quotes, you usually need double backslashes.  I've not used the ansible_env syntax but hopefully the following should do the trick.

- set_fact:

        my_login: "{{ ansible_env['USERDOMAIN'] }}\\{{ ansible_env['USERNAME'] }}"

Hope this helps,

Jon

[Mike Fennemore]

Hi Jon, good call on the \\ , it does now set the fact. However if I run a debug I see it is now set as domain\\user.

[J Hawkesworth]

Not tried, but worth trying single quotes and a single backslash

[Christoph Wegener]

Just a guess - but wouldn't debug use python pprint and hence why you see \\ in debug?

[Christoph Wegener]

I just had a quick look, all log output in ansible is done via python Logger objects. So, I'm not sure if the \\ is actually the representation of you data structure of if the \\ is a result of outputting the data structure via debug.