Is there a way to decrypt the AWX Vault password that is encrypted if the copy of plain-text password is lost. We somehow need to decrypt it first as it is the master password using which we encrypted all our playbooks. We are not using any password file in the configuration We have 2 types of cred…

First, I want to preface that AWX is not a Secrets Manager. It does have a Secrets Vault, and it integrates well with external SM’s, but it doesn’t provide you with any direct way to expose its stored secrets. It isn’t meant to be used that way. Second, AWX doesn’t provide any way to retrieve encry…

Thanks That is right.The people who implemented this 3yrs ago are no longer with the company and I have recently joined this project.

Good find! I don’t know how I missed that.

Apologies for late reply. I can’t find awx-manage command. Btw our awx envrionment is running on docker instances .I tried to install awx-mange from the repos (RHEL8) but can’t find it.

awx-manage will be inside of an awx-task container. You will need to exec into the container to do this. Edit: something like this: docker exec -it awx-task /bin/bash -c "awx-manage shell_plus"

Thanks @Denney-tech @Klaas . I’m able to retrieve the key which was of credential type “Machine” but trying to retrieve vault password which is failing. Can you help with me the command to retrieve the encrypted credentials of type “Vault” as well as “Source Control”

I created a “fake vault credential” object in my AWX 23.8.1 instance and was able to retreive the vault password with the following: >>> from awx.main.utils import decrypt_field >>> print(decrypt_field(Credential.objects.get(name="fake vault credential"), "vault_password")) vault_foo_bar Edit: for…

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Klaas (Klaas) March 24, 2024, 7:55pm 4

if it’s saved in awx you can decrypt it awx/docs/credentials/extract_credentials.md at devel · ansible/awx · GitHub

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How to decrypt the AWX vault password

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