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Remove a local group on Windows-like systems — Ansible module win_group
How to automate the removal of a local user “accounting” on Windows-like systems using the Ansible module win_group.
How to Remove a local group on Windows-like systems with Ansible?
I’m going to show you a live demo with some simple Ansible code.
I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.
Note: Be very careful about typing the right group name because the delete operation is irreversible!
Ansible Remove a group on Windows-like systems
- `
ansible.windows.win_group
` - Add or remove groups
Today we’re talking about Ansible module `win_group
`.
The full name is `ansible.windows.win_group
`, which means that is part of the collection of modules specialized to interact with Windows target host.
It’s a module pretty stable and out for years.
It works in Windows and Windows Server operating systems.