Using non Administrator winrm user with amazon-ebs

[Gautam Singh]

Hi Packer Community members!

I am creating Windows AMI using amazon-ebs builder and want to use packer winrm admin user different from default Administrator user for AWS instance.

The reason I want to do this is because I am running a program that is delivered from a different team that deletes the default Administrator user.

The program also restart the packer builder instance after which packer cannot connect back since the Administrator user is no more :( 

There are some other provisioners that needs to run after this program, which is not possible because packer cannot connect back.

What does it takes to use a separate winrm user from Adminitstrator? Thanks for your help.

Thanks,

-Gautam

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

hi there

you can specify user and password, so your template should set Administrator somewhere.

https://www.packer.io/docs/communicators/winrm.html#winrm_username

So instead of Administrator you could use this non-Administrator user.

Alvaro.

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