When I run commands on my ansible 2.9 version on red hat 7 distro -
$ ansible-vault encrypt_string 'l3@TH!hFymu4b91!x[W!u[EL'
New Vault password: [ERROR]: User interrupted execution
$ ansible-vault encrypt_string '-w2kBT>ur=X{U`!43o&m'
usage: ansible-vault [-h] [--version] [-v]
{create,decrypt,edit,view,encrypt,encrypt_string,rekey}
...
ansible-vault: error: unrecognized arguments: -w2kBT>ur=X{U`!43o&m
The first command succeeds while second one fails. Is it related to special characters. My program automatically generates passwords, so just one time escape won't help!
NB: The BaSh shell also would throw some errors, if you try to pass that string with a tilde using double quotes. But for single quotes, it won't complain.
CodePudding user response:
The second command fails because the argument to encrypt_string
looks like a command line option (because it starts with hyphen -
). As with many command line tools, you can tell ansible-vault
to stop looking for option arguments using the --
marker, like this:
ansible-vault encrypt_string -- '-w2kBT>ur=X{U`!43o&m'