win_user: Fails with Exception calling "SetInfo" with "0" argument(s)

[dagwieers]

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

win_user

ANSIBLE VERSION

v2.3

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Windows 2012 R2

SUMMARY

When using the below playbook (without password !) I get this error:

Exception calling "SetInfo" with "0" argument(s): "The password does not meet the password policy requirements. Check the minimum password length, password complexity and password history requirements."

- win_user:
    name: sqlsvc
    groups:
    - Administrators
    groups_action: add
    password_never_expires: yes
    state: present

Obviously I didn't provide a password, but it shouldn't bail out with this specific error.

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[jhawkesworth]

At 19:00 UTC on Tuesday 19 September 2017 this ticket will be processed during the second Windows Sprint,
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we would appreciate if you could join the Sprint to help out with understanding/fixing/closing this issue.

[jhawkesworth]

Discussed at the sprint @dagwieers will attempt to reproduce.

[dagwieers]

I can reproduce this on Windows 2012 R2, but not on Windows 10 (latest update).

So I wonder how we can solve this:

1. Not providing a password is possible on other platforms (even when the user exists)
2. Provide a proper error message without the wrapping Improve Windows module exception output #28402

[dagwieers]

So I am going to close this one and refer to #28402 to ensure we have proper error-messages in the future for run-away exceptions :-)