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Make WinRM security warning more explicit (ansible#50263)
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Make WinRM security warning more explicit.
Currently the warning is "viewed by anyone", this is a much lower risk than arbitrary command injection. Therefore the risk should be phrased appropriately.

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Klaus Frank authored and kbreit committed Jan 11, 2019
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A last resort is to disable the encryption requirement on the Windows host. This
should only be used for development and debugging purposes, as anything sent
from Ansible can viewed by anyone on the network. To disable the encryption
from Ansible can be viewed, manipulated and also the remote session can completely
be taken over by anyone on the same network. To disable the encryption
requirement, run the following from PowerShell on the target host:
.. comment: Pygments powershell lexer does not support colons (i.e. URLs)
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