secrets disable

The secrets disable command disables an secrets engine at a given PATH. The argument corresponds to the enabled PATH of the engine, not the TYPE! All secrets created by this engine are revoked and its Vault data is removed.

When a secrets engine is disabled, all secrets generated via the secrets engine are immediately revoked. Care should be taken when disabling a secret mount with a large number of secrets, as it can cause a high load on the system during revocation time.

Examples

Disable the secrets engine enabled at aws/:

$ vault secrets disable aws/

Usage

There are no flags beyond the standard set of flags included on all commands.

Force disable

Because secrets disable revokes secrets associated with this mount, possible errors can prevent the secrets engine from being disabled if the revocation fails.

The best way to resolve this is to figure out the underlying issue and then disable the secrets engine once the underlying issue is resolved. Often, this can be as simple as increasing the timeout (in the event of timeout errors).

For recovery situations where the secret was manually removed from the secrets backing service, one can force a secrets engine disable in Vault by performing a prefix force revoke on the mount prefix, followed by a secrets disable when that completes. If the underlying secrets were not manually cleaned up, this method might result in dangling credentials. This is meant for extreme circumstances.