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! > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/5635aeb8-5db3-4e28-a8eb-8a5ea2f98640n%40googlegroups.com.
