windows: updated docs to include info regarding https validation (#34128)

* updated docs to include info regarding https validation

* some doc edits
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@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Ansible uses the `pywinrm <https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm>`_ package to
communicate with Windows servers over WinRM. It is not installed by default
with the Ansible package, but can be installed by running the following::
pip install "pywinrm>=0.2.2"
pip install "pywinrm>=0.3.0"
.. Note:: on distributions with multiple python versions, use pip2 or pip2.x,
where x matches the python minor version Ansible is running under.
@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ There are some extra host variables that can be set::
ansible_winrm_kinit_mode: managed/manual (manual means Ansible will not obtain a ticket)
ansible_winrm_kinit_cmd: the kinit binary to use to obtain a Kerberos ticket (default to kinit)
ansible_winrm_keytab: the path to the keytab file
ansible_winrm_service: overrides the SPN prefix that is used, the default is ``HTTP`` and should rarely ever need changing
ansible_winrm_kerberos_delegation: allows the credentials to traverse multiple hops
ansible_winrm_kerberos_hostname_override: the hostname to be used for the kerberos exchange
@ -639,6 +639,15 @@ for additional configuration of WinRM connections:
message encryption. ``always`` means message encryption will always be used
and ``never`` means message encryption will never be used
* ``ansible_winrm_ca_trust_path``: Used to specify a different cacert container
than the one used in the ``certifi`` module. See the HTTPS Certificate
Validation section for more details.
* ``ansible_winrm_send_cbt``: When using ``ntlm`` or ``kerberos`` over HTTPS,
the authentication library will try to send channel binding tokens to
mitigate against man in the middle attacks. This flag controls whether these
bindings will be sent or not (default: ``True``).
* ``ansible_winrm_*``: Any additional keyword arguments supported by
``winrm.Protocol`` may be provided in place of ``*``
@ -679,6 +688,40 @@ would an IPv4 address or hostname::
use IPv6 addresses in Python 2.6 and 2.7, make sure to run
``pip install ipaddress`` which installs a backported package.
HTTPS Certificate Validation
````````````````````````````
As part of the TLS protocol, the certificate is validated to ensure the host
matches the subject and the client trusts the issuer of the server certificate.
When using a self-signed certificate or setting
``ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore`` these security mechanisms are
bypassed. While self signed certificates will always need the ``ignore`` flag,
certificates that have been issued from a certificate authority can still be
validated.
One of the more common ways of setting up a HTTPS listener in a domain
environment is to use Active Directory Certificate Service (AD CS). AD CS is
used to generate signed certificates from a Certificate Signing Request (CSR).
If the WinRM HTTPS listener is using a certificate that has been signed by
another authority, like AD CS, then Ansible can be set up to trust that
issuer as part of the TLS handshake.
To get Ansible to trust a Certificate Authority (CA) like AD CS, the issuer
certificate of the CA can be exported as a PEM encoded certificate. This
certificate can then be copied locally to the Ansible controller and used as a
source of certificate validation, otherwise known as a CA chain.
The CA chain can contain a single or multiple issuer certificates and each
entry is contained on a new line. To then use the custom CA chain as part of
the validation process, set ``ansible_winrm_ca_trust_path`` to the path of the
file. If this variable is not set, the default CA chain is used instead which
is located in the install path of the Python package
`certifi <https://github.com/certifi/python-certifi>`_.
.. Note:: Each HTTP call is done by the Python requests library which does not
use the systems built-in certificate store as a trust authority.
Certificate validation will fail if the server's certificate issuer is
only added to the system's truststore.
Limitations
```````````
Due to the design of the WinRM protocol , there are a few limitations

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