Easiest available way is using Openssl Encrypt Say your actual password is "Password12345". You can encrypt using below command - echo "Password12345" | openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -md sha512 -a -pbkdf2 -iter 100000 -salt -pass pass:Secret@1234# > secret.txt Resultant output in " secret.txt" U2FsdGVkX1/2NoQ6i1uZKK4yk+5gm5cA13EJ2TiPbcw= Save this in a file and use it with your applications. Decrypt Then you can read file with encrypted password, decrypt it using below command and pass it to henceforth operations/ commands. cat "secret.txt" | openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -md sha512 -a -d -pbkdf2 -iter 100000 -salt -pass pass:Secret@123# Resultant output Password12345