I want to view a file that has been encrypted with ansible-vault, but I don't want to make any changes. The ansible-vault command doesn't have an option to just *cat* the decrypted file. Here are the options available:
➜ defaults git:(master) ✗ ansible-vault --help Usage: ansible-vault [*create|decrypt|edit|encrypt|rekey]* [--help] [options] file_name Options: -h, --help show this help message and exit See 'ansible-vault <command> --help' for more information on a specific command. So I've been using ansible-vault edit command to view the file and then quit the editor without saving when done viewing the contents. Surprisingly, even though I quit out of the editor without saving, it changes the file anyway. Why is this? When I do a git status I see the file is modified and the SHA1 has been changed. See below for an example where no changes were saved: ➜ defaults git:(master) openssl sha1 main.yml SHA1(main.yml)= 63acb6f65ae7d1ad34e047e80acd8857ebab5692 ➜ defaults git:(master) ansible-vault edit main.yml Vault password: ➜ defaults git:(master) ✗ openssl sha1 main.yml SHA1(main.yml)= 7c48df4f13402558c0e1ca691250a0e8be0bc548 -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/6d7fbfd0-ca4d-48ac-a4f2-56a8cc2dd0c9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
