# the connection plugin 'kerberos' was not found

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-connection-plugin-kerberos-was-not-found/24079>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [March 28, 2017, 9:02am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-connection-plugin-kerberos-was-not-found/24079 "2017-03-28T09:02:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vijay\_R\_K\_Shetty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/439d5e/32.png) [@Vijay\_R\_K\_Shetty](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Vijay_R_K_Shetty)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 9:02am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-connection-plugin-kerberos-was-not-found/24079/1 "2017-03-28T09:02:11Z")

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> FAILED! =\> {  
> “failed”: true,  
> “msg”: “the connection plugin ‘kerberos’ was not found”

I have installed kerberos but unable to get it working can some one help me?

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**Author:** ![jborean](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/jborean/32/1525_2.png) [@jborean](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jborean)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 5:46am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-connection-plugin-kerberos-was-not-found/24079/2 "2017-03-29T05:46:15Z")

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I believe this error appears if you are setting the ansible\_connection var to an invalid connection in this case Kerberos. If you are wanting to use Windows with kerberos your vars should have

ansible\_connection: winrm  
ansible\_winrm\_transport: kerberos