# Permission denied using ansible-vault edit **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [February 27, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/permission-denied-using-ansible-vault-edit/14667 "2014-02-27T19:02:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kesten\_Broughton2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecc23a/32.png) [@Kesten\_Broughton2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kesten_Broughton2)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/permission-denied-using-ansible-vault-edit/14667/1 "2014-02-27T19:02:33Z")
I can encrypt and decrypt but i haven’t been able to get edit to work. I’m running on a mac. In my bash\_profile i have aliases to sublime ---------- .bash\_profile -------------- alias edit=‘/Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl’ # a sudo version for when you need to edit /opt/ or other sudo owned files alias sedit=‘sudo /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl’ # define EDITOR or ansible-vault # Tried several things export EDITOR=edit # Command not found alias EDITOR=edit # Permission denied alias EDITO=sedit ---------- end .bash\_profile -------------- \*\*[\*\ ***kbroughton@mb-kbroughton** : **lynx-ansible/dev-ansible** **+ (develop)]** ansible-vault encrypt sudoers Vault password: Confirm Vault password: Encryption successful \*\*[\*\ ***kbroughton@mb-kbroughton** : **lynx-ansible/dev-ansible** **+ (develop)]** ansible-vault decrypt sudoers Vault password: Decryption successful \*\*[\*\ ***kbroughton@mb-kbroughton** : **lynx-ansible/dev-ansible** **+ (develop)]** ansible-vault edit -d sudoers Vault password: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/Users/kbroughton/vcp/git/mentat/ansible/bin/ansible-vault”, line 182, in main fn(args, options, parser) File “/Users/kbroughton/vcp/git/mentat/ansible/bin/ansible-vault”, line 141, in execute\_edit this\_editor.edit\_file() File “/Users/kbroughton/vcp/git/mentat/ansible/lib/ansible/utils/vault.py”, line 188, in edit\_file call([EDITOR, tmp\_path]) File “/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.6/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py”, line 522, in call return Popen(\*popenargs, \*\*kwargs).wait() File “/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.6/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py”, line 709, in **init** errread, errwrite) File “/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.6/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py”, line 1326, in \_execute\_child raise child\_exception OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied ERROR: [Errno 13] Permission denied \*\*[\*\ ***kbroughton@mb-kbroughton** : **lynx-ansible/dev-ansible** **+ (develop)]** alias EDITOR=sedit \*\*[\*\ ***kbroughton@mb-kbroughton** : **lynx-ansible/dev-ansible** **+ (develop)]** ansible-vault edit -d sudoers Vault password: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/Users/kbroughton/vcp/git/mentat/ansible/bin/ansible-vault”, line 182, in main fn(args, options, parser) File “/Users/kbroughton/vcp/git/mentat/ansible/bin/ansible-vault”, line 141, in execute\_edit this\_editor.edit\_file() File “/Users/kbroughton/vcp/git/mentat/ansible/lib/ansible/utils/vault.py”, line 188, in edit\_file call([EDITOR, tmp\_path]) File “/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.6/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py”, line 522, in call return Popen(\*popenargs, \*\*kwargs).wait() File “/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.6/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py”, line 709, in **init** errread, errwrite) File “/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.6/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py”, line 1326, in \_execute\_child raise child\_exception OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied ERROR: [Errno 13] Permission denied **Also tried as sudo user** \*\*[\*\ ***kbroughton@mb-kbroughton** : **lynx-ansible/dev-ansible** **+ (develop)]** sudo ansible-vault edit -d sudoers Traceback (most recent call last): File “/Users/kbroughton/vcp/git/mentat/ansible/bin/ansible-vault”, line 27, in from ansible import utils ImportError: No module named ansible ---
**Author:** ![tannerjc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/tannerjc/32/985_2.png) [@tannerjc](https://forum.ansible.com/u/tannerjc)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/permission-denied-using-ansible-vault-edit/14667/2 "2014-02-27T19:32:47Z")
Can you try setting EDITOR to vi, vim, or nano ? ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_Gerla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71c47a/32.png) [@Tim\_Gerla](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tim_Gerla)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/permission-denied-using-ansible-vault-edit/14667/3 "2014-02-27T19:46:53Z")
This might be tough to get working because “subl” returns immediately to the shell after opening the file, which means ansible-vault can’t re-encrypt after you’re done editing. You should probably stick with encrypt/decrypt and editing manually. What would be really cool is a Sublime Text plugin for vault! -Tim ---
**Author:** ![Kesten\_Broughton2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecc23a/32.png) [@Kesten\_Broughton2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kesten_Broughton2)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/permission-denied-using-ansible-vault-edit/14667/4 "2014-02-28T18:52:59Z")
That was precisely the problem. export EDITOR=nano works fine. An ansible vault plugin for sublime… sounds nice.