Error while doing kerbrose connection from Ansible to Windows

[manoj kumar]

Hi,

I have ansible version

ansible 2.1.0.0

  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

  configured module search path = Default w/o overrides

Kerberos is also installled along with request_kerberose and pywinrm0.2.0.

I am getting the error while running a ping module as " "changed": false,

    "msg": "kerberos: authGSSClientStep() failed: (('Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information', 851968), ('Server not found in Kerberos database', -1765328377))",

    "unreachable": true

"

Host file is like 

[server]

BCDFPO91.PAL.COM

[server:vars]

ansible_user=US...@PAL.COM

ansible_ssh_pass=0987

ansible_connection=winrm

ansible_port=5986

ansible_winrm_transport=kerberos

ansible_winrm_kerberos_delegation=yes

Can you guys please help out what needs to be done to resolve this.

BR

Manoj

[J Hawkesworth]

Not sure what is wrong but kerberos needs DNS to work fully (both forward and reverse lookups).

Check the hostname can be resolved to an ip from your ansible controller.

Also check you have configured correct domain controllers in your /etc/krb5.conf

Hope this helps,

Jon

[manoj kumar]

Host name is resolvable to an IP. But while resolving IP back for testing reverse DNS mapping it is not happening.

In /etc/krb5.conf we have the correct configuration as below.

[logging]
 default = FILE:/var/log/krb5libs.log
 kdc = FILE:/var/log/krb5kdc.log
 admin_server = FILE:/var/log/kadmind.log

[libdefaults]
 default_realm = WEBSITE.COM
 dns_lookup_realm = false
 dns_lookup_kdc = false
 ticket_lifetime = 24h
 renew_lifetime = 7d
 forwardable = true

[realms]
 WEBSITE.COM = {
  kdc = WIN-SA2TXZOTVMV.website.com
  admin_server = WIN-SA2TXZOTVMV.website.com
 }

[domain_realm]
 .website.com = WEBSITE.COM
 website.com = WEBSITE.COM

Also I am getting connected to the domain using kinit.

But the servers are not getting recognized. with the error "traceroute AMATLTDMSWEB00.RECALL.COM

AMATLTDMSWEB00.RECALL.COM: Name or service not known

Cannot handle "host" cmdline arg `AMATLTDMSWEB00.RECALL.COM' on position 1 (argc 1)

"

While using servername/ip in the hosts file and tries to getting conencted the below mentioned error comes up.

[J Hawkesworth]

Your krb5.conf looks ok, although you might want to add a second kdc machine if you have one.  Looks like that side of things is working if you are getting a kerberos ticket ok.

Pretty certain you are going to need to get reverse DNS lookups functioning properly to get kerberos connections working though.
Its worth doing as less than fully functional DNS just makes life difficult for network users.  Unfortunately its something I have no experience of fixing so don't know how to help with that.

If you are just using hostnames in your inventory, check that the search suffixes are set up correctly in your resolv.conf

Jon