# ansible-vault on WLS **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** windows\ **Created:** [August 5, 2017, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-vault-on-wls/25187 "2017-08-05T18:55:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![William\_McKenzie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f14d63/32.png) [@William\_McKenzie](https://forum.ansible.com/u/William_McKenzie)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2017, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-vault-on-wls/25187/1 "2017-08-05T18:55:20Z")
Anybody using vault with windows linux subsystem? I get this if I try to do anything requiring the vault:. I’ve down apt-get update and upgrade. openssl is 1.0.2g. ` c1rpc@LOUIS:~/cartewright$ ansible-playbook -i inventory check\_inventory.yml -vvv No config file found; using defaults ERROR! Unexpected Exception: /home/c1rpc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cryptography/hazmat/bindings/\_openssl.so: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Invalid argument the full traceback was: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/home/c1rpc/.local/bin/ansible-playbook”, line 109, in exit\_code = cli.run() File “/home/c1rpc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/cli/playbook.py”, line 128, in run inventory = Inventory(loader=loader, variable\_manager=variable\_manager, host\_list=self.options.inventory) File “/home/c1rpc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/inventory/ **init**.py”, line 98, in **init** self.parse\_inventory(host\_list) File “/home/c1rpc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/inventory/ **init**.py”, line 170, in parse\_inventory group.vars = combine\_vars(group.vars, self.get\_group\_variables(group.name)) File “/home/c1rpc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/inventory/ **init**.py”, line 575, in get\_group\_variables self.\_vars\_per\_group[groupname] = self.\_get\_group\_variables(groupname, vault\_password=vault\_password) File “/home/c1rpc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/inventory/ **init**.py”, line 593, in \_get\_group\_variables vars = combine\_vars(vars, self.get\_group\_vars(group)) File “/home/c1rpc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/inventory/ **init**.py”, line 795, in get\_group\_vars return self.\_get\_hostgroup\_vars(host=None, group=group, new\_pb\_basedir=new\_pb\_basedir, return\_results=return\_results) File “/home/c1rpc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/inventory/ **init**.py”, line 859, in \_get\_hostgroup\_vars host\_results = self.\_variable\_manager.add\_group\_vars\_file(base\_path, self.\_loader) File “/home/c1rpc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/vars/ **init**.py”, line 639, in add\_group\_vars\_file data = self.\_load\_inventory\_file(path, loader) File “/home/c1rpc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/vars/ **init**.py”, line 570, in \_load\_inventory\_file results = self.\_load\_inventory\_file(path=p, loader=loader, filter\_ext=True) File “/home/c1rpc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/vars/ **init**.py”, line 579, in \_load\_inventory\_file data = loader.load\_from\_file(path) File “/home/c1rpc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/parsing/dataloader.py”, line 118, in load\_from\_file (b\_file\_data, show\_content) = self.\_get\_file\_contents(file\_name) File “/home/c1rpc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/parsing/dataloader.py”, line 179, in \_get\_file\_contents data = self.\_vault.decrypt(data, filename=b\_file\_name) File “/home/c1rpc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/parsing/vault/ **init**.py”, line 246, in decrypt b\_plaintext = this\_cipher.decrypt(b\_vaulttext, self.b\_password) File “/home/c1rpc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/parsing/vault/ **init**.py”, line 783, in decrypt b\_key1, b\_key2, b\_iv = self.\_gen\_key\_initctr(b\_password, b\_salt) File “/home/c1rpc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/parsing/vault/ **init**.py”, line 729, in \_gen\_key\_initctr backend = default\_backend() File “/home/c1rpc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cryptography/hazmat/backends/ **init**.py”, line 15, in default\_backend from cryptography.hazmat.backends.openssl.backend import backend File “/home/c1rpc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/ **init**.py”, line 7, in from cryptography.hazmat.backends.openssl.backend import backend File “/home/c1rpc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cryptography/hazmat/backends/openssl/backend.py”, line 53, in from cryptography.hazmat.bindings.openssl import binding File “/home/c1rpc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cryptography/hazmat/bindings/openssl/binding.py”, line 13, in from cryptography.hazmat.bindings.\_openssl import ffi, lib ImportError: /home/c1rpc/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cryptography/hazmat/bindings/\_openssl.so: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Invalid argument c1rpc@LOUIS:~/cartewright$ ` ---
**Author:** ![alikins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d07c76/32.png) [@alikins](https://forum.ansible.com/u/alikins)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-vault-on-wls/25187/2 "2017-08-08T17:56:08Z")
This looks to be an issue in BashOnWindows and not ansible or ansible-vault. See: [https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/286](https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/286) [https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windo/suggestions/13904454-mprotect-prot-growsdown-support](https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/266908-command-prompt-console-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windo/suggestions/13904454-mprotect-prot-growsdown-support)