RHEL 7.4 no longer includes "gnutls" by default - Breaks winexe

[grichmond-salt]

When using a default install of RHEL 7.4 on AWS with Salt Cloud to create Windows minions, the user will receive the following notification:

Error: There was a profile error: Failed to authenticate against remote windows host (smb)

The source of the problem is that winexe returns this error:

winexe: error while loading shared libraries: libgnutls.so.28: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This problem can be manually resolved by installing gnutls:

yum -y install gnutls

(apparently RHEL 7.4 no longer installs this package by default)

However, if the winexe package could identify this as a dependency, it would be helpful for customers that deploy with a fresh install of RHEL 7.4.

[grichmond-salt]

Additional note:

This may be of interest: https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2017-August/msg00002.html