Re: [ansible-devel] Why not environment variable to store vault secrets ?

2020-01-22 Thread Fess Mage

>
> That's pretty much it: we don't want to encourage folks to store passwords 
> in environment variables. 
>

The question is - why? Obviously env var is more secure than plain text 
file, which is current default for ansible. Of course its not the best 
available option, but still - better than now.

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Re: [ansible-devel] Why not environment variable to store vault secrets ?

2019-11-12 Thread Sam Doran
Gabriel,

> Maybe the developpers fear that some users could do things like :
> export VAULT_PASSWORD="MYPASSWORD"
> ansible-playbook ...
> 
> which is of course a bad idea because the password is written in shell 
> history... 

That's pretty much it: we don't want to encourage folks to store passwords in 
environment variables.

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Sam

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