# Ansible Tower playbook credential question

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-playbook-credential-question/26053>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [November 17, 2017, 5:25am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-playbook-credential-question/26053 "2017-11-17T05:25:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Qingyu\_Hu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/edb3f5/32.png) [@Qingyu\_Hu](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Qingyu_Hu)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 5:25am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-playbook-credential-question/26053/1 "2017-11-17T05:25:52Z")

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Hey gang

New kid on the block here. Not sure if this is the right forum to ask questions regarding ansible towers, I know I can contact support and I have emailed them but I was hoping there are wiser gurus out here that can help answer my question.

So the question is this: I am demoing tower for my company and tower has it’s encrypted credential in the database which I really like the idea of. I am building a simple provision VM play book but vmware\_guest requires the username and password entry. So how do I reference/use my stored credential in ansible tower database? I have selected the correct credential in the template for the job but the error is saying I must have user name and password defined in the playbook. Is there a variable in the playbook where I can reference tower’s password?

only thing I found online is to encrypt the password in vault and program the vault password and use that in the template. That’s just lame because now I got 2 place to manage password and vault is less secure because there is only 1 password and no RBAC.

thanks in advance!

chang