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

Even with all these solutions, editing ansible vault files didn't work for me until I set the EDITOR environment variable (for whatever reason it was not set on my Linux distribution):

export EDITOR="/usr/bin/vi"

One way to figure out if this applies to you is to try to view vault files (with ansible-vault view command) and if view works fine but edit doesn't, then you need to set the EDITOR env variable to your favorite editor.