Unable to ping windows host without password

[vijethayerigeri]

Summary

[win:vars]
ansible_user= administrator
ansible_port=5986
ansible_connection=winrm

and im not adding ansible_password= as my system dont need password to login they autologin with username as administrator.

but im getting below output: 
<IP> | UNREACHABLE! => {
    "changed": false,
    "msg": "plaintext: auth method plaintext requires a password",
    "unreachable": true
}

How to make this work

Issue Type

Bug Report

Component Name

apt

Ansible Version

ansible [core 2.12.10]
  config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/home/prashant/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /home/prashant/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /usr/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.8.10 (default, Nov 22 2023, 10:22:35) [GCC 9.4.0]
  jinja version = 2.10.1
  libyaml = True

Configuration

BECOME:
======

CACHE:
=====

CALLBACK:
========

CLICONF:
=======

CONNECTION:
==========

HTTPAPI:
=======

INVENTORY:
=========

LOOKUP:
======

NETCONF:
=======

SHELL:
=====

VARS:
====

OS / Environment

ubuntu

Steps to Reproduce

ansible all -i hosts -m win_ping

Expected Results

<IP> | SUCCESS => {
    "ansible_facts": {
        "discovered_interpreter_python": "/usr/bin/python3"
    },
    "changed": false,
    "ping": "pong"
}

Actual Results

<IP> | UNREACHABLE! => {
    "changed": false,
    "msg": "plaintext: auth method plaintext requires a password",
    "unreachable": true
}

Code of Conduct

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[ansibot]

Files identified in the description:

• lib/ansible/modules/apt.py

If these files are incorrect, please update the component name section of the description or use the component bot command.

[ansibot]

@vijethayerigeri ansible-core 2.12 is not supported and no longer receives bug fixes. Please test against one of the supported versions of ansible-core, preferably the most recent one, to see whether the bug has been fixed.

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[bcoca]

the ping module is not an ICMP ping, but a test of Ansible being able to execute modules on the remote, so part of the test is to actually login to the system.

[nitzmahone]

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