Using ansible_user or remote_user in group_vars

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Hi

I want to use ansible_user in group_vars so that I can set ansible_winrm_user to add a domain name for authentication.

EG.

ansible_winrm_user: “{{ ansible_user }}@{{ windows_domain}}”
become_user: “{{ ansible_user }}@{{ windows_domain}}”

I’d apply this to group_vars for windows machines.

When I try it I get the following error:

The field ‘ansible_winrm_user’ has an invalid value, which includes an undefined variable. The error was: ‘ansible_user’ is undefined",

I’ve also tried it with remote_user to the same result.

It used to work ~2.1 but doesn’t on 2.9.

Is there a new way of doing this or is it a bug?

Thanks.

Si.