Raise Exception("Cannot import pyOpenSSL")

[Tiago Pimpão]

Hi there,

I'm getting this error when running ansible. 

[root@localhost ansible]# ansible windows -i hosts -m win_ping -vvv

Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file

An exception occurred during task execution. The full traceback is:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/executor/task_executor.py", line 126, in run

    res = self._execute()

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/executor/task_executor.py", line 453, in _execute

    self._connection = self._get_connection(variables=variables, templar=templar)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/executor/task_executor.py", line 699, in _get_connection

    connection = self._shared_loader_obj.connection_loader.get(conn_type, self._play_context, self._new_stdin)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/__init__.py", line 339, in get

    self._module_cache[path] = self._load_module_source('.'.join([self.package, name]), path)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/__init__.py", line 324, in _load_module_source

    module = imp.load_source(name, path, module_file)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/connection/winrm.py", line 46, in <module>

    import winrm

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/winrm/__init__.py", line 6, in <module>

    from winrm.protocol import Protocol

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/winrm/protocol.py", line 11, in <module>

    from winrm.transport import Transport

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/winrm/transport.py", line 42, in <module>

    from requests_credssp import HttpCredSSPAuth

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests_credssp/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>

    from .credssp import HttpCredSSPAuth

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests_credssp/credssp.py", line 8, in <module>

    raise Exception("Cannot import pyOpenSSL")

Exception: Cannot import pyOpenSSL

windows2012.contoso.com | FAILED! => {

    "failed": true, 

    "msg": "Unexpected failure during module execution.", 

    "stdout": ""

}

I check everthying but not able to pass this error. 

The SO wis a RHEL 7.3

thanks

Tiago

[Sumanth Reddy]

I have the same issue

[cupcake]

might want to run with -vvvvv to get winrm info as well; what auth are you doing. 

I saw a similar issue and when i tried to user kerberos auth to AD

some version of pyopenssl was installed so i tried to upgrade.

pip install pyopenssl --upgrade

received some errors with openssl/opensslv.h. 

yum provides '*openssl/opensslv.h'

and found it was part of package openssl-devel (rhel7 here)

After that I was able to connect with kerberos AD account. 

Basic auth was working fine already. 

[Karthik Bhat]

If you are on Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install libffi-dev

pip install cryptography

Good luck!

[Jordan Borean]

Hey

The package pyOpenSSL is used by the requests-credssp package. Even if you are not using CredSSP it will try and load the library if it is there and fail if it doesn't exist. There is a newer version of requests-credssp that doesn't fail outright if you aren't using credssp auth so try pip install -U requests-credssp to get that.

Otherwise https://github.com/jborean93/requests-credssp shows the packages that must be installed for it to work and contains the minimum pyOpenSSL version that requests-credssp needs.

Thanks

Jordan