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safe — Interact with HashiCorp Vault. More information: <https://github.com/egen/safe>.

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How to use the safe command: Interact with HashiCorp Vault. More information: <https://github.com/egen/safe>.

safe — Interact with HashiCorp Vault. More information: <https://github.com/egen/safe>.

Add a safe target:

safe target {{vault_addr}} {{target_name}}

Authenticate the CLI client against the Vault server, using an authentication token:

safe auth {{authentication_token}}

Print the environment variables describing the current target:

safe env

Display a tree hierarchy of all reachable keys for a given path:

safe tree {{path}}

Move a secret from one path to another:

safe move {{path/to/old_secret}} {{path/to/new_secret}}

Generate a new 2048-bit SSH key-pair and store it:

safe ssh {{2048}} {{path/to/secret}}

Set non-sensitive keys for a secret:

safe set {{path/to/secret}} {{key}}={{value}}

Set auto-generated password in a secret:

safe gen {{path/to/secret}} {{key}}

Add a safe target

safe target {{vault_addr}} {{target_name}}

Authenticate the CLI client against the Vault server, using an authentication token

safe auth {{authentication_token}}

Print the environment variables describing the current target

safe env

Display a tree hierarchy of all reachable keys for a given path

safe tree {{path}}

Move a secret from one path to another

safe move {{path/to/old_secret}} {{path/to/new_secret}}

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