# Ansible Tower 3.5.1 - Installation - Valut\_Pass

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-3-5-1-installation-valut-pass/30991>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [August 8, 2019, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-3-5-1-installation-valut-pass/30991 "2019-08-08T14:57:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kalyan\_Alamuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e79b87/32.png) [@Kalyan\_Alamuru](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kalyan_Alamuru)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-3-5-1-installation-valut-pass/30991/1 "2019-08-08T14:57:46Z")

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Hi,

I’ve installed Ansible Tower 3.5.1 on CentOs 7 EC2 Instance for our deployments. After Installtion I’ve set up some Jobs using Jobs Template, When I try to launch them I’m getting following error.

> **The vault password file /var/lib/awx/.vault\_pass was not found**

I’ve created .valut\_pass.txt in the above directory and try to re-ran the Job it is failed, Then I try to update .vault\_pass in home ./~ directory and re-ran the Job still it is failed. Also I made reference to .valut\_pass in bash profile also by reference the path (ANSIBLE\_VAULT\_PASSWORD\_FILE=~/.vault\_pass.txt) still it failed when I try to run the job.

Also I tried to remove the reference(Just for testing) from ansible.cfg(User one, which is there in my Ansible Tower Set up) to see whether Job will run, Still it failed,

In all the above three instances it is failing with Same errors. I don’t understand how the come the Job fails even after I remove reference from ansible.cfg.

FYI,Whenever I made any changes, I’ve restarted the ansible-tower-service and tested it. I also checked /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg file also but there are no references to valut\_pass in that file and also as per ansible documentation, If user ansible\_cfg is there than that takes precedence so it should not be an issue, I guess.

Has any one of you faced similar error and able to resolve it? If so please let me know what’s the work around?

Regards  
Kalyan.

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**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-3-5-1-installation-valut-pass/30991/2 "2019-08-08T15:13:28Z")

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This is the list for Ansible not Tower, please contact RedHat support on Tower.

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**Author:** ![Kalyan\_Alamuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e79b87/32.png) [@Kalyan\_Alamuru](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kalyan_Alamuru)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 8:32am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-3-5-1-installation-valut-pass/30991/3 "2019-08-09T08:32:03Z")

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Oh ok… Thanks for the update. I thought Tower’s Open Source Offering is also there(Which I guess AWX) just checking whether any body’s encountered similar issue out here or not…

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**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 8:36am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-3-5-1-installation-valut-pass/30991/4 "2019-08-09T08:36:07Z")

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AWX has it's own list, search and you'll find.