diff --git a/global/pre-tasks.d/040hiera-gpg b/global/pre-tasks.d/040hiera-gpg
index e5de6da..3aa3037 100755
--- a/global/pre-tasks.d/040hiera-gpg
+++ b/global/pre-tasks.d/040hiera-gpg
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ Name-Comment: Hiera GPG key
 Name-Email: root@`hostname --fqdn`
 Expire-Date: 0
 # Do a commit here, so that we can later print "done" :-)
+%no-protection
 %commit
 %echo done
 EOF