ssl: the specified credentials were rejected by the server (packer + windows + ansible)

[Gerrit Johannsen]

Hi,

I know that the ansible provisioner is only community supported, so hoping for help here.

I'm using packer to build a windows server image and winrm is working fine using these commands in the userdata to setup winrm:

(New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1', 'c:\ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1');

iex "c:\ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1 -SkipNetworkProfileCheck -ForceNewSSLCert"

After it does some configuration without issues, so winrm seems fine for packer.

Now I want to run an ansible playbook to configure more software and start tests.

This is the provisioner:

      {

       "type": "ansible",

       "playbook_file":

         "tasks/install_software.yml",

       "user": "Administrator",

       "extra_arguments": [

       "--connection", "packer",

       "-vvv",

       "--extra-vars", "ansible_shell_type=powershell ansible_shell_executable=None ansible_password={{ .WinRMPassword }}"

       ]

     },

I have the packer.py connection plugin in a directory next to the playbook.

This is the error message I receive:

ssl: the specified credentials were rejected by the server

Let me know if I can provide more details or help with testing.

Thank you for your help!