# The vault password file /home/user./vault was not found **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [June 10, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-vault-password-file-home-user-vault-was-not-found/33149 "2020-06-10T20:37:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ssn7819](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@ssn7819](https://forum.ansible.com/u/ssn7819)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-vault-password-file-home-user-vault-was-not-found/33149/1 "2020-06-10T20:37:08Z")
Hi Guys Initially I was using a vault file to store sensitive information and pass them in. It was working. Now I removed any reference to the vault file as I wanted to test something else. Now I keep getting the below error ERROR The vault password file /home/user./vault was not found Below is the actual command I used to run the ansible playbook **Actual command** anisble-playbook -i $HOST\_FILE playbbok.yml --extra-vars “target\_hosts=$2” **Things that I have checked** there is no reference to the pass word file in ansible.cfg Any pointer is highly appreciated. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-vault-password-file-home-user-vault-was-not-found/33149/2 "2020-06-10T20:43:09Z")
I suspect you have the vault secrets file configured somewhere, use: ansible-config dump --only-changed to find out where ---
**Author:** ![ssn7819](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@ssn7819](https://forum.ansible.com/u/ssn7819)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2020, 8:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-vault-password-file-home-user-vault-was-not-found/33149/3 "2020-06-10T20:54:42Z")
Thank you Brian that worked.