ansible-vault doesn't prompt to create vault password

[Matt Mullen]

I'm running 2.4.0 and trying to encrypt a file with ansible-vault.  In past versions of Ansible, this command would prompt to create a vault password to encrypt the file:

C02NVAEGG3QJ:playbooks mullenma$ ansible-vault encrypt test.yml

Usage: ansible-vault encrypt [options] file_name

encryption/decryption utility for Ansible data files

Options:

  --ask-vault-pass      ask for vault password

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

  --new-vault-id=NEW_VAULT_ID

                        the new vault identity to use for rekey

  --new-vault-password-file=NEW_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILES

                        new vault password file for rekey

  --output=OUTPUT_FILE  output file name for encrypt or decrypt; use - for

                        stdout

  --vault-id=VAULT_IDS  the vault identity to use

  --vault-password-file=VAULT_PASSWORD_FILES

                        vault password file

  -v, --verbose         verbose mode (-vvv for more, -vvvv to enable

                        connection debugging)

  --version             show program's version number and exit

 See 'ansible-vault <command> --help' for more information on a specific

command.

ERROR! A vault password is required to use Ansible's Vault

I also tried to utilize the create keyword, with similar results:

C02NVAEGG3QJ:playbooks mullenma$ ansible-vault create test.yml

Usage: ansible-vault create [options] file_name

encryption/decryption utility for Ansible data files

Options:

  --ask-vault-pass      ask for vault password

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

  --new-vault-id=NEW_VAULT_ID

                        the new vault identity to use for rekey

  --new-vault-password-file=NEW_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILES

                        new vault password file for rekey

  --output=OUTPUT_FILE  output file name for encrypt or decrypt; use - for

                        stdout

  --vault-id=VAULT_IDS  the vault identity to use

  --vault-password-file=VAULT_PASSWORD_FILES

                        vault password file

  -v, --verbose         verbose mode (-vvv for more, -vvvv to enable

                        connection debugging)

  --version             show program's version number and exit

 See 'ansible-vault <command> --help' for more information on a specific

command.

ERROR! A vault password is required to use Ansible's Vault

Is there something I am missing,  or is this not working correctly?

Thanks,
Matt

[Adrian Likins]

hmm, thats a bug. I'll take a look at it, but filing at issue at github wouldn't hurt.

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[Adrian Likins]

And for now, in 2.4:

    ansible-vault --ask-vault-pass create foo.yml

or

    ansible-vault --vault-id=prompt create foo.yml

[Matt Mullen]

That works, thanks!  

For anyone else hitting this,  it was an already open issue:  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/27885

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[Adrian Likins]

And fixed in devel/ in https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/28185

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