# Ansible Password Encryption

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-password-encryption/31871>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [December 25, 2019, 9:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-password-encryption/31871 "2019-12-25T21:23:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Parveen\_Datt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/85f322/32.png) [@Parveen\_Datt](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Parveen_Datt)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2019, 9:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-password-encryption/31871/1 "2019-12-25T21:23:39Z")

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Team, please help

How to encrypt password in Ansible apart from Ansible vault ?

Is there any way to encrypt password and set encrypted password as variable and use it in playbook ?

If yes, then how playbook will decrypt the password ?

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**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2019, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-password-encryption/31871/2 "2019-12-25T21:43:02Z")

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Take a look at the various lookup plugins:

[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/lookup.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/plugins/lookup.html)