Investigate using Win32 APIs instead of RubyNTLM on Windows hosts

[mwrock]

When making winrm calls from a Windows host, its possible to use native win32 APIs. The advantage to doing this is that these APIs can access the auth token of the currently logged in user an so that user can avoid having to re-enter credentials.

The deprecated winrm-s gem provides an example of implementation. Its just monkey patches on top of this gem and httpclient so its undesirable to reuse the gem.

This is in reference to: test-kitchen/test-kitchen#957

[mwrock]

cc @stuartpreston

[robwafle]

Hi @mwrock, do you think investigating this, or using the native win32 calls is still relevant? We've been seeing lots of WinRM disconnects and auth issues, and I'm going through the open github issues and seeing if I can find anything regarding that. This one looks particularly interesting.

[Iristyle]

FWIW, I've looked at this a bit and started spiking an implementation. No ETA yet, but using gssapi on a Windows client is a non-starter for most people.

There are some notes in https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/BOLT-1323