Verify ansible vault password

bgstack15 — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 12:35:37 GMT

# prepare vault password file
printf 'Vault password: ' ; read -se VAULT_PASS ; printf '\n' ;
echo "${VAULT_PASS}" > "${PWFILE}"
# fail out if password is incorrect
! ansible-vault view --vault-password-file "${PWFILE}" "${VAULTFILE}" 1>/dev/null && exit 1

You can use shell to read in the password and save it to a file. Just remember to clean it up at the end! I like to do this right before a shell loop that calls ansible with vaulted values multiple times, so I'm not prompted multiple times to enter the password.

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Verify ansible vault password