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community.crypto.gpg_fingerprint lookup – Retrieve a GPG fingerprint from a GPG public or private key file

Note

This lookup plugin is part of the community.crypto collection (version 2.26.5).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.crypto. You need further requirements to be able to use this lookup plugin, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.crypto.gpg_fingerprint.

New in community.crypto 2.15.0

Synopsis

  • Takes a list of filenames pointing to GPG public or private key files. Returns the fingerprints for each of these keys.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this lookup.

  • GnuPG (gpg executable)

Terms

Parameter

Comments

Terms

list / elements=path / required

A path to a GPG public or private key.

See Also

See also

community.crypto.gpg_fingerprint filter plugin

Retrieve a GPG fingerprint from a GPG public or private key.

Examples

---
- name: Show fingerprint of GPG public key
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ lookup('community.crypto.gpg_fingerprint', '/path/to/public_key.gpg') }}"

Return Value

Key

Description

Return value

list / elements=string

The fingerprints of the provided public or private GPG keys.

The list has one entry for every path provided.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Felix Fontein (@felixfontein)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/crypto/gpg_fingerprint_lookup.html