win_owner – Set owner

Synopsis

• Set owner of files or directories.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
path path / required		Path to be used for changing owner.
recurse boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Indicates if the owner should be changed recursively.
user string / required		Name to be used for changing owner.

See Also

See also

win_acl – Set file/directory/registry permissions for a system user or group

The official documentation on the win_acl module.

win_file – Creates, touches or removes files or directories

The official documentation on the win_file module.

win_stat – Get information about Windows files

The official documentation on the win_stat module.

Examples

- name: Change owner of path
  win_owner:
    path: C:\apache
    user: apache
    recurse: yes

- name: Set the owner of root directory
  win_owner:
    path: C:\apache
    user: SYSTEM
    recurse: no

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

• This module is maintained by the Ansible Core Team. [core]

Red Hat Support

More information about Red Hat’s support of this module is available from this Red Hat Knowledge Base article.

Authors

• Hans-Joachim Kliemeck (@h0nIg)

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