# How to use Credentials in AWX playbook

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-use-credentials-in-awx-playbook/27878>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [June 27, 2018, 12:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-use-credentials-in-awx-playbook/27878 "2018-06-27T00:51:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Christopher\_Meyers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Christopher\_Meyers](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Christopher_Meyers)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 12:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-use-credentials-in-awx-playbook/27878/21 "2018-08-27T12:11:52Z")

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That looks good. Try running the job with the highest level verbosity.

Note that tower does not expose your ssh decrypt password. The ssh process that ansible spawns may prompt for a password. AWX will look for that prompt string and fill it in with the ssh password.  
[https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/87235082256e83a6531218771c7a502b91445f69/awx/main/expect/run.py#L55](https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/87235082256e83a6531218771c7a502b91445f69/awx/main/expect/run.py#L55)  
[https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/87235082256e83a6531218771c7a502b91445f69/awx/main/tests/unit/expect/test\_expect.py#L124](https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/87235082256e83a6531218771c7a502b91445f69/awx/main/tests/unit/expect/test_expect.py#L124)

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**Author:** ![Pierrick\_Prost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pierrick\_Prost](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Pierrick_Prost)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-use-credentials-in-awx-playbook/27878/22 "2020-04-02T15:44:01Z")

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Hi everyone,

someone know how to call SCM credential with the same typo thant “ANSIBLE\_XXX” ?

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