topic Re: Cannot find pyats.conf in Controllers

Cannot find pyats.conf

Robert Burlingame — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 20:40:15 GMT

I'm trying to implement secret strings in order to avoid plain text passwords in my yaml files.

All pyats documentation points me to make changes to the "pyats.conf" file. However, I cannot find such a file.

Any idea where this could be? I've used every grep/find command I can think of.

Some of the reference links I'm using:

https://pubhub.devnetcloud.com/media/pyats/docs/configuration/index.html#pyats-configuration

https://pubhub.devnetcloud.com/media/pyats/docs/utilities/secret_strings.html?highlight=encoded%20password

Any help greatly appreciated!

Re: Cannot find pyats.conf

yixiu0317 — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 23:25:13 GMT

Hi Robert,

I know it is an old thread, did you find the location of pyats.conf file?

I am having the same problem now.

Thank you in advance.

Re: Cannot find pyats.conf

assadniang — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:50:42 GMT

Hello,

Where can I find the pyats.conf file?

pyats version 25.7

Using the default YAML encoding key since no key was specified in configuration. THIS IS A SHARED KEY AND IS NOT SECURE, PLEASE RUN `pyats secret keygen` AND ADD TO YOUR pyats.conf FILE BEFORE ENCODING ANY VALUES. collected 1 item

Re: Cannot find pyats.conf

bigevilbeard — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:55:32 GMT

On Linux/Mac the default configuration file is /etc/pyats.conf - If you don't have a pyats.conf file, you can create one in any of these locations. You can also create one by running the pyats secret keygen command.

Re: Cannot find pyats.conf

assadniang — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:14:21 GMT

@bigevilbeard
I created one manually
But running the pyats secret keygen command does not create one.
Running PyATS 25.7
Thanks

Re: Cannot find pyats.conf

bigevilbeard — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:19:09 GMT

@assadniang as i understand the pyats secret keygen command does not create the pyats.conf file for you. Its purpose is to generate the encryption key string that you then manually add to a pyats.conf file you have already created.