Can you provide a minimal Ansible playbook with a vaulted variable file to 
see if we can recreate it or see anything amiss?

The error message you're showing states "root @ SOME_IP: Permission denied 
(publickey,password)" which doesn't seem to be ansible-vault related.

On Sunday, October 2, 2022 at 6:15:34 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:

> I'm using in inventory/group_vars/all.yaml:
> ....
> *ansible_ssh_private_key_file: '{{inventory_dir}}/group_vars/path/to/key'*
>
> This Key is working well when it's plain text
> When I encrypt the file with ansible-vault, i get the error:
>
>
>
> *    Load key 
> "/home/user/projects/ansible/inventory/group_vars/path/to/key": invalid 
> format    root @ SOME_IP: Permission denied (publickey,password).  
> unreachable: true*
>
> I am using $*ANSIBLE_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE *to decrypt everything without 
> asking for password.
> I have other encrypted secrets in all.yaml that get decrypted.
>
> What am I missing ?
>
> Thanks!
>

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