# Automate the configuration of SSH in a Linux machine using Ansible and the Vault SSH secret engine.

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/automate-the-configuration-of-ssh-in-a-linux-machine-using-ansible-and-the-vault-ssh-secret-engine/38109>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [June 15, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/automate-the-configuration-of-ssh-in-a-linux-machine-using-ansible-and-the-vault-ssh-secret-engine/38109 "2023-06-15T20:06:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sonali\_Sarade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Sonali\_Sarade](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sonali_Sarade)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/automate-the-configuration-of-ssh-in-a-linux-machine-using-ansible-and-the-vault-ssh-secret-engine/38109/1 "2023-06-15T20:06:18Z")

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Hi Team,

I’m trying to Automate the configuration of SSH in a Linux machine using Ansible and the Vault SSH secret engine. To ensure secure communication between the machine and remote systems.

I need to decide the roadmap how can I achive this. please help me out how can I use Vault SSH secret engine here.

Regards,  
Sonali.

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**Author:** ![Akasurde](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/akasurde/32/230_2.png) [@Akasurde](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Akasurde)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/automate-the-configuration-of-ssh-in-a-linux-machine-using-ansible-and-the-vault-ssh-secret-engine/38109/2 "2023-06-15T20:20:27Z")

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AWX provides Ansible Vault and Hashicorp vault plugins for storing SSH credentials. Please take a look at [https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/userguide/credentials.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/userguide/credentials.html) to implement this feature.