Ansible-vault errors with “Odd-length string”

Question

I\'m running Ansible 1.8.2. I have a vaulted file created on another system. On that system it works without any problems. However, when I run it on my local sy

Answer 1

Turns out this error is because as of Ansible 1.8.2 it requires a very specific line-end encoding for the vaulted files.

When I had this type of file it would fail:

$» file vaulted_vars.yml
vaulted_vars.yml: ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators

However, once I changed it to this, it started working:

$» file vaulted_vars.yml
vaulted_vars.yml: ASCII text

This whole problem happened because my git client was changing linefeed characters. See this article for specifics: https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-line-endings/