Vault is sealed and unable to unseal it

Vault
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Hi All,

I have installed Vault in CentOS/RHEL machine, after not using it for some days, vault has been sealed and I don’t have the keys to unseal it

I have tried using the below commands but there isn’t any use

vault operator init
Error initializing: Error making API request.

URL: PUT http://127.0.0.1:8200/v1/sys/init
Code: 400. Errors:

  • Vault is already initialized

vault token lookup
Error looking up token: Error making API request.

URL: GET http://127.0.0.1:8200/v1/auth/token/lookup-self
Code: 503. Errors:

  • Vault is sealed
2

Hi there,

Unfortunately, there is no other way to unseal vault other than using the unseal keys…
So in that case if you can’t find your keys, you need to setup vault again

3

For uninstalling do we have any command?
I have tried deleting the /data folder and re-install still getting the error as “Vault is already initialized”.

4

Uninstalling vault and removing the data directory should be enough for then reinstalling it as an empty vault again

Can you send your vault.hcl config file?