The powershell shell family is incompatible with the sudo become plugin

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Hi

I m configuring windows host on windows 10 virtual machine. My control node is Redhat OS 8 virtual machine. This is for the developer testing setup. I get below error when I do
$ansible -vvv winsvr -i /etc/ansible/hosts -m win_ping

“The powershell shell family is incompatible with the sudo become plugin”. Why do I get this error. Any help to fix this issue is appreciated

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This indicates that in your inventory you have indicated ansible_become=true, however you have not specified ansible_become_method=runas for the Windows hosts.

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Thankyou Matt your solution worked perfectly.

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Hi,

I am also getting the same error but i couldn’t mentioned ‘ansible_become=true’ in my inventory file. where should i need to specify “ansible_become_method=runas”.Plz help me sortout this issue. Thank you in advance.

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Please don’t hijack a thread just because you see a similar error.

Instead start a new one, which will also allow you to provide the information that is needed to answer your question (playbook, inventory, etc).
In any case make sure you first read
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/become.html and understand what is means, especially the windows sections at the bottom.