set_fact for Windows domain login

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I have a specific use that requires the Domain\User Windows format.
My assumption was
`

  • set_fact:
    my_login: “{{ ansible_env[‘USERDOMAIN’] }}{{ ansible_env[‘USERNAME’] }}”

`

This doesn’t seem to work however. How do I combine the two envrionmental variable with a \ between them?

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When you are inside double quotes, you usually need double backslashes. I’ve not used the ansible_env syntax but hopefully the following should do the trick.

  • set_fact:
    my_login: “{{ ansible_env[‘USERDOMAIN’] }}\{{ ansible_env[‘USERNAME’] }}”

Hope this helps,

Jon

3

Hi Jon, good call on the \ , it does now set the fact. However if I run a debug I see it is now set as domain\user.

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Not tried, but worth trying single quotes and a single backslash

5

Just a guess - but wouldn’t debug use python pprint and hence why you see \ in debug?

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I just had a quick look, all log output in ansible is done via python Logger objects. So, I’m not sure if the \ is actually the representation of you data structure of if the \ is a result of outputting the data structure via debug.