fix vbox inventory to correclty unset pwfile (#49774)

6 years ago · daaca1abd5
parent 02432565cd
commit daaca1abd5
2 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/changelogs/fragments/vbox_fix.yml
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/vbox_fix.yml
@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - preserve Noneness of pwdfile when it is None in virtualbox inventory plugin
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/virtualbox.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/virtualbox.py
@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin, Constructable, Cacheable):
                update_cache = True

        if not source_data:
-            b_pwfile = to_bytes(self.get_option('settings_password_file'), errors='surrogate_or_strict')
+            b_pwfile = to_bytes(self.get_option('settings_password_file'), errors='surrogate_or_strict', nonstring='passthru')
            running = self.get_option('running_only')

            # start getting data