Which authentication option is used by default for WinRM?

aep-sunlife · March 6, 2025, 4:28pm

The Ansible documentation about WinRM neglects to specify which authentication mechanism is the default for WinRM connections (Basic vs Certificate vs Kerberos vs NTLM vs CredSSP). Can we please indicate this more clearly on the official documentation page?

binbashroot · March 6, 2025, 7:22pm

There is no “default”, you must specify which one to use.

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