New install to manage Windows servers, but krb5.conf is missing

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I’m installing Ansible as a test. I have a mixed environment of Windows and Ubuntu servers in an Active Directory domain.

I built a new Hyper-V virtual machine for Ansible; it’s running Xubuntu 16.04 LTS. Ansible 2.0.0.2 is installed.

I’ve been following the steps on the Windows Support web page.

Under the section “Configuring Kerberos”, I see “Edit your /etc/krb5.conf (which should be installed as a result of installing packages above”. But /etc/krb5.conf doesn’t exist.

Unless I missed something, these are all the “packages above”.

  • pip install "pywinrm>=0.1.1"

  • sudo apt-get install python-dev libkrb5-dev

  • pip install kerberos

What am I missing? Another package?

I installed Ansible following the instructions for Latest Releases Via Apt, but I don’t seem to have the latest version. Is this a problem?

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Looking at

https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/kerberos.html

I think you might need

krb5-user

which I guess might be the equivalent of the yum package krb5-workstation

Please reply if this installs the /etc/krb5.conf and I will get the documentation updated.

Hope this helps,

Jon

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That did it. Onward . . .

Thanks.

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Just to follow up, I made this pull request to update the documentation
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/15894