i believe that openssh private key files are already text encoded; it looks this way on my servers. this approach had occurred to me also - but can I write a simple, elegant task to get this variable into the file on the hosts? that's the part that wasn't obvious to me.
-- http://about.me/jeremy_schneider On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Jan-Piet Mens <jpm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > my particular use case is an SSH private key file (password-less, used to > > enable jumping between servers in a cluster). normally i'd stick this in > > the files folder and use the copy module to push it. > > A bit convoluted maybe, but base64-encode the file, and add it to a YAML > vars file which is then put into ansible-vault? > > $ echo "myfile: $(openssl enc -a -A -in filename)" > vars.yml > myfile: > aGVsbG8Kd29ybGQKaGVsbG8Kd29ybGQKaGVsbG8Kd29ybGQKaGVsbG8Kd29ybGQKaGVsbG8Kd29ybGQK > > -JP > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ansible-project/i31-qVAv4JM/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/20140305202555.GA21165%40tiggr.ww.mens.de > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BfnDAZmnAEjH40WfvRfJBf12hLC0bRxDob%3DQ7Ljkyfw8yij0A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
