document problem and work around when needing different passwords #4
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I propose to document the problem and the work around when using different sets of vaults, each with set with its distinct password. Such a situation may arise when maintaining multiple ansible playbooks for different customers each with a different password. The proposed workaround is of course a disgusting hack. One improvement to this ugly hack could maybe be to replace `my_path = os.path.realpath(sys.argv[0])` [in line 72](https://github.com/dsedivec/ansible-plugins/blob/826d0eaccc24932217efd3f6d75db4619b6ede4d/vault_from_gpg_agent.py#L72) with `my_path = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])` which would not do symlink resolution and thus allow something like this: ``` ls -l ansible-tools lrwxrwxrwx 1 user group 6 Nov 12 09:00 vault_from_gpg_agent_customer_1.py -> vault_from_gpg_agent.py lrwxrwxrwx 1 user group 6 Nov 12 09:00 vault_from_gpg_agent_customer_2.py -> vault_from_gpg_agent.py lrwxrwxrwx 1 user group 6 Nov 12 09:00 vault_from_gpg_agent_customer_3.py -> vault_from_gpg_agent.py -rwxr-xr-x 1 user group 78 Nov 12 09:00 vault_from_gpg_agent.py ``` But this also makes we wince, so it's maybe just a *little* improvement. The real problem IMHO is that [ansible-vault calls the external password script](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/aee7a3ed6809c93a81307466503eec630a343d9e/lib/ansible/parsing/vault/__init__.py#L454) without any parameters whatsoever, and so the password script is completely blind (I mean it doesn't even get to know which `vault-id`' is being used!) and thus can't do any intelligent decision. So maybe the right (and heroic) thing to do would be to move the discussion upstream and have the problem fixed there for good and for real by having `ansible-vault` pass all the necessary context to the external password script?
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I propose to document the problem and the work around when using different sets of vaults, each with set with its distinct password. Such a situation may arise when maintaining multiple ansible playbooks for different customers each with a different password.
The proposed workaround is of course a disgusting hack. One improvement to this ugly hack could maybe be to replace
my_path = os.path.realpath(sys.argv[0])in line 72 withmy_path = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])which would not do symlink resolution and thus allow something like this:But this also makes we wince, so it's maybe just a little improvement.
The real problem IMHO is that ansible-vault calls the external password script without any parameters whatsoever, and so the password script is completely blind (I mean it doesn't even get to know which
vault-id' is being used!) and thus can't do any intelligent decision.So maybe the right (and heroic) thing to do would be to move the discussion upstream and have the problem fixed there for good and for real by having
ansible-vaultpass all the necessary context to the external password script?