# Unexpected vault behavior

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/unexpected-vault-behavior/25742>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [October 12, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unexpected-vault-behavior/25742 "2017-10-12T19:45:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ed\_Rice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Ed\_Rice](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ed_Rice)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unexpected-vault-behavior/25742/1 "2017-10-12T19:45:22Z")

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I am noticing a strange behavior when I use vault to secure a password for a playbook. I am not sure if this happens with other vaulted info. I wrote a playbook that does an ipa-client-join and I used vault to secure my password. In var/log/messages, I see the command string and the username which in my play is clear text is obscured like so \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*@yaddayadda.com but the password which is vaulted info comes accross in the log cleartext. Am I missing something?

Thanks