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win_user_right - Manage Windows User Rights

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis

  • Add, remove or set User Rights for a group or users or groups.
  • You can set user rights for both local and domain accounts.

Options

parameter required default choices comments
action
 no set
  • set
  • add
  • remove
add will add the users/groups to the existing right.
remove will remove the users/groups from the existing right.
set will replace the users/groups of the existing right.
name
 yes
The name of the User Right as shown by the Constant Name value from https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd349804.aspx.
The module will return an error if the right is invalid.
users
 yes
A list of users or groups to add/remove on the User Right.
These can be in the form DOMAIN\user-group, [email protected] for domain users/groups.
For local users/groups it can be in the form user-group, .\user-group, SERVERNAME\user-group where SERVERNAME is the name of the remote server.
You can also add special local accounts like SYSTEM and others.

Examples

---
- name: replace the entries of Deny log on locally
  win_user_right:
    name: SeDenyInteractiveLogonRight
    users:
    - Guest
    - Users
    action: set

- name: add account to Log on as a service
  win_user_right:
    name: SeServiceLogonRight
    users:
    - .\Administrator
    - '{{ansible_hostname}}\local-user'
    action: add

- name: remove accounts who can create Symbolic links
  win_user_right:
    name: SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege
    users:
    - SYSTEM
    - Administrators
    - DOMAIN\User
    - [email protected]
    action: remove

Return Values

Common return values are documented here Return Values, the following are the fields unique to this module:

name description returned type sample
removed
A list of accounts that were removed from the right, this is empty if no accounts were removed.
 success list ['SERVERNAME\\Administrator', 'BUILTIN\\Administrators']
added
A list of accounts that were added to the right, this is empty if no accounts were added.
 success list ['NT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM', 'DOMAIN\\User']

Notes

Note

  • If the server is domain joined this module can change a right but if a GPO governs this right then the changes won’t last.

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

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© 2012–2017 Michael DeHaan
© 2017 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/win_user_right_module.html