diff --git a/.travis/ansible_tests.sh b/.travis/ansible_tests.sh
index e6441343..bc119149 100755
--- a/.travis/ansible_tests.sh
+++ b/.travis/ansible_tests.sh
@@ -40,14 +40,16 @@ pip install ansible=="${ANSIBLE_VERSION}"
 cd ${TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/tests/ansible
 
 chmod go= ${TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/tests/data/docker/mitogen__has_sudo_pubkey.key
-echo '[test-targets]' > ${TMPDIR}/hosts
+mkdir ${TMPDIR}/hosts
+ln -s ${TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/tests/ansible/common-hosts ${TMPDIR}/hosts/common-hosts
+echo '[test-targets]' > ${TMPDIR}/hosts/target
 echo \
     target \
     ansible_host=$DOCKER_HOSTNAME \
     ansible_port=2201 \
     ansible_user=mitogen__has_sudo_nopw \
     ansible_password=has_sudo_nopw_password \
-    >> ${TMPDIR}/hosts
+    >> ${TMPDIR}/hosts/target
 
 # Build the binaries.
 make -C ${TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/tests/ansible
diff --git a/tests/ansible/README.md b/tests/ansible/README.md
index a76c7c1f..8051ef85 100644
--- a/tests/ansible/README.md
+++ b/tests/ansible/README.md
@@ -25,3 +25,18 @@ environment before the Mitogen connection process forks.
 ```
 ANSIBLE_STRATEGY=mitogen_linear ./run_ansible_playbook.sh all.yml
 ```
+
+
+## ``hosts/`` and ``common-hosts``
+
+To support running the tests against a dev machine that has the requisite user
+accounts, the the default inventory is a directory containing a 'localhost'
+file that defines 'localhost' to be named 'target' in Ansible inventory, and a
+symlink to 'common-hosts', which defines additional targets that all derive
+from 'target'.
+
+This allows ``ansible_tests.sh`` to reuse the common-hosts definitions while
+replacing localhost as the test target by creating a new directory that
+similarly symlinks in common-hosts.
+
+There may be a better solution for this, but it works fine for now.
diff --git a/tests/ansible/hosts b/tests/ansible/common-hosts
similarity index 81%
rename from tests/ansible/hosts
rename to tests/ansible/common-hosts
index 45bfb9ef..0aead1be 100644
--- a/tests/ansible/hosts
+++ b/tests/ansible/common-hosts
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-
-[test-targets]
-localhost
-
 [connection-delegation-test]
 cd-bastion
 cd-rack11 mitogen_via=ssh-user@cd-bastion
@@ -14,3 +10,6 @@ cdc-bastion mitogen_via=cdc-rack11a-docker
 cdc-rack11 mitogen_via=ssh-user@cdc-bastion
 cdc-rack11a mitogen_via=root@cdc-rack11
 cdc-rack11a-docker mitogen_via=docker-admin@cdc-rack11a ansible_connection=docker
+
+[conn-delegation]
+cd-user1 ansible_user=mitogen__user1 ansible_connection=mitogen_sudo mitogen_via=target
diff --git a/tests/ansible/hosts/common-hosts b/tests/ansible/hosts/common-hosts
new file mode 120000
index 00000000..f3cc7f59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/ansible/hosts/common-hosts
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../common-hosts
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/ansible/hosts/localhost b/tests/ansible/hosts/localhost
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6e022a01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/ansible/hosts/localhost
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[test-targets]
+target ansible_hostname=localhost