Remove a local user on Windows-like systems — Ansible module win_user

How to automate the removal of a local user “example” on Windows-like systems using the Ansible module win_user.

How to Remove a local user 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.

Ansible remove local user account

• `ansible.windows.win_user`
• Manages local Windows user accounts

Today we’re talking about Ansible module `win_user`.

The full name is `ansible.windows.win_user`, 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.

It manages local Windows user accounts.

For Linux target use the `user` module instead.

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