Veröffentlicht von If you use npm, docker, aws or other CLIs that require authentication or require environment variables, you want to have them available without copy/pasting it from some password manager and you don’t want to store it as plain text in .bash_profile or .bashrc.
How about using the Mac OS integrated keychain password manager? It provides a command line interface for storing and retrieving sensitive information.
To store a username password combination, or also just a password, you may use the add-generic-password feature of OSX keychain:
security add-generic-password -s name_of_credential -a username@something -w "PASSWORD"
You may leave -a switch with the same name as -s if you only need a password credential.
To retrieve a username or password from keychain and provide it as an environmental variable, add it to your terminal file as following:
export MY_USER=`keychain -u -s name_of_credential` export MY_PASS=`keychain -p -s name_of_credential`
Read also my post about structuring your terminal files.