---
title: 'Updating Secrets'
description: 'Learn how to update secrets in NocoDB using the nc-secret-cli package.'
tags: ['Secrets', 'nc-secret-cli', 'Update', 'Security']
keywords: ['NocoDB secrets', 'nc-secret-cli', 'Update', 'Security']
---

## Updating Secrets

To update a secret in NocoDB, you can use the `nc-secret-cli` package. Follow the steps below to update a secret:

### Using the Command Line Interface (CLI)

1. Install the `nc-secret-cli` package if you haven't already. You can do this by running the following command in your terminal:

   ```bash
   npm install -g nc-secret-cli
   ```

2. Once the package is installed, you can update a secret by running the following command:

   ```bash
   NC_DB="pg://host:port?u=user&p=password&d=database" nc-secret-cli update --prev <previous-secret> --new <new-secret>
   ```
   
   OR

   ```bash
   NC_DB="pg://host:port?u=user&p=password&d=database" nc-secret-cli <previous-secret> <new-secret>
   ```
   
   Replace `<prev-secret>` with the name of the secret you used previously, and `<new-secret>` with the new value of the secret.

3. After running the command, the secret will be updated in NocoDB.

### Using Executables

Alternatively, you can use the `nc-secret-cli` executable to update secrets.

1. Download the `nc-secret-cli` executable from the [NocoDB website](https://github.com/nocodb/nc-secret-cli/releases/latest).
2. Run the executable using the following command:

   ```bash
   NC_DB="pg://host:port?u=user&p=password&d=database" ./nc-secret-macos-arm64 update --prev <previous-secret> --new <new-secret>
   ```

   Replace `<prev-secret>` with the name of the secret you used previously, and `<new-secret>` with the new value of the secret.

3. After running the command, the secret will be updated in NocoDB.


Note: All environment variables are supported, including `NC_DB`, `NC_DB_JSON`, `NC_DB_JSON_FILE`, `DATABASE_URL`, and `DATABASE_URL_FILE`. You can use any of these variables to specify your database connection. Alternately you can use following equivalent parameters.

| Environment Variable | CLI Parameter |
| --------------------- | -------------- |
| `NC_DB`               | `--nc-db`      |
| `NC_DB_JSON`          | `--nc-db-json` |
| `NC_DB_JSON_FILE`     | `--nc-db-json-file` |
| `DATABASE_URL`        | `--database-url` |
| `DATABASE_URL_FILE`   | `--database-url-file` |