Never Leave the Terminal: Introducing the NordPass Command Line Interface (CLI)
Context switching is the enemy of productivity. If you are a developer, platform engineer, or sysadmin, you likely live in your command terminal. Having to break your focus, open a separate password manager app, hunt down a credential, copy it, and paste it back into your workspace is a frustrating disruption. To solve this, we are thrilled to launch the NordPass Command Line Interface (CLI)—a tool engineered specifically to keep IT professionals in their flow state.
What is the NordPass CLI?
The new CLI provides direct, terminal-based access to your NordPass vault. It eliminates the need to rely on the graphical desktop app by letting you execute quick commands to manage your secrets right where you are already working.
Tailored for the unique needs of DevOps specialists and developers, the CLI operates completely standalone. Authentication is frictionless: an initial browser prompt handles secure OAuth login, after which you simply enter your master password directly into the terminal to unlock your vault. Your session remains securely active until it times out from inactivity or you manually lock it.
Feature Set: What Can the CLI Do?
Designed to support both large-scale IT operations and solo technical projects, the NordPass CLI comes packed with powerful capabilities:
- Comprehensive Item Management: Instantly create, view, modify, and delete credentials within your vault.
- Folder Organization: Build, list, and edit personal folders. You can also filter through personal and shared folders (shared folders are accessible in read-only mode).
- Dynamic Secret Injection: Streamline your pipelines by injecting credentials directly into active programs, or populate configuration templates with actual secrets on the fly—all without ever writing sensitive data to your disk.
- Trash Recovery: Safely restore accidentally deleted items or permanently purge them.
- Advanced Password Generation: Instantly spin up complex passwords with defined lengths and character sets, or generate secure passphrases with custom word counts and separators.
- Multi-Account Support: Effortlessly view, add, remove, and toggle between multiple NordPass accounts within a single terminal session.
- Automation-Ready Outputs: Output data in plain text or format it as JSON for seamless integration into your existing scripts and automation workflows.
- Hardened Security: Enjoy secure OAuth-based authentication. Your access tokens are safely encrypted in your operating system’s keychain, and your master encryption key is strictly kept in memory, never written to disk.
Why Business Teams Will Love It
For organizations relying on automated pipelines and terminal-driven workflows, the CLI is a game-changer. Engineering teams can programmatically inject API keys into microservices, rotate credentials, and read shared team folders without ever touching a GUI. For IT administrators, security and compliance are maintained perfectly: every action performed via the CLI is thoroughly tracked and visible in the central NordPass Activity Log.
Why Personal Users Will Love It
Solo developers and power users benefit just as much. Whether you are running local scripts, managing server configurations, or just want to minimize window clutter on your monitor, the CLI allows you to generate and inject secrets with a few quick keystrokes, keeping your personal workflow clean and uninterrupted.
About NordPass
NordPass is developed by Nord Security, a company leading the global market of cybersecurity products.
The web has become a chaotic space where safety and trust have been compromised by cybercrime and data protection issues. Therefore, our team has a global mission to shape a more trusted and peaceful online future for people everywhere.
About Version 2 Limited
Version 2 Digital is one of the most dynamic IT companies in Asia. The company distributes a wide range of IT products across various areas including cyber security, cloud, data protection, end points, infrastructures, system monitoring, storage, networking, business productivity and communication products.
Through an extensive network of channels, point of sales, resellers, and partnership companies, Version 2 offers quality products and services which are highly acclaimed in the market. Its customers cover a wide spectrum which include Global 1000 enterprises, regional listed companies, different vertical industries, public utilities, Government, a vast number of successful SMEs, and consumers in various Asian cities.
About NordPass
NordPass is developed by Nord Security, a company leading the global market of cybersecurity products.
The web has become a chaotic space where safety and trust have been compromised by cybercrime and data protection issues. Therefore, our team has a global mission to shape a more trusted and peaceful online future for people everywhere.
About Version 2 Limited
Version 2 Digital is one of the most dynamic IT companies in Asia. The company distributes a wide range of IT products across various areas including cyber security, cloud, data protection, end points, infrastructures, system monitoring, storage, networking, business productivity and communication products.
Through an extensive network of channels, point of sales, resellers, and partnership companies, Version 2 offers quality products and services which are highly acclaimed in the market. Its customers cover a wide spectrum which include Global 1000 enterprises, regional listed companies, different vertical industries, public utilities, Government, a vast number of successful SMEs, and consumers in various Asian cities.