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layout: docs
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page_title: path-help - Command
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description: |-
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The "path-help" command retrieves API help for paths. All endpoints in Vault
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provide built-in help in markdown format. This includes system paths, secret
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engines, and auth methods.
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---
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# path-help
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The `path-help` command retrieves API help for paths. All endpoints in Vault
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provide built-in help in markdown format. This includes system paths, secret
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engines, and auth methods.
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The help system is the easiest way to learn how to use the various systems
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in Vault, and also allows you to discover new paths.
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Before using `path-help`, it is important to understand "paths" within Vault.
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Paths are the parameters used for `vault read`, `vault write`, etc. An example
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path is `secret/foo`, or `aws/config/root`. The paths available depend on the
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secrets engines in use. Because of this, the interactive help is an
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indispensable tool to finding what paths are supported.
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To discover what paths are supported, use `vault path-help PATH`. For example,
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if you enabled the AWS secrets engine, you can use `vault path-help aws` to find
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the paths supported by that backend. The paths are shown with regular
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expressions, which can make them hard to parse, but they are also extremely
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exact.
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## Examples
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Get help output for the KV secrets engine:
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```shell-session
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$ vault path-help secret
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## DESCRIPTION
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The KV backend reads and writes arbitrary secrets to the backend.
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The secrets are encrypted/decrypted by Vault: they are never stored
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unencrypted in the backend and the backend never has an opportunity to
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see the unencrypted value.
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Leases can be set on a per-secret basis. These leases will be sent down
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when that secret is read, and it is assumed that some outside process will
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revoke and/or replace the secret at that path.
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## PATHS
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The following paths are supported by this backend. To view help for
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any of the paths below, use the help command with any route matching
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the path pattern. Note that depending on the policy of your auth token,
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you may or may not be able to access certain paths.
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^.*$
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Pass-through secret storage to the storage backend, allowing you to
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read/write arbitrary data into secret storage.
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```
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Once you've found a path you like, you can learn more about it by using `vault path-help <path>` where "path" is a path that matches one of the regular
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expressions from the backend help.
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```shell-session
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$ vault path-help secret/password
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Request: password
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Matching Route: ^.*$
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Pass-through secret storage to the storage backend, allowing you to
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read/write arbitrary data into secret storage.
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## PARAMETERS
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lease (string)
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Lease time for this key when read. Ex: 1h
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## DESCRIPTION
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The pass-through backend reads and writes arbitrary data into secret storage,
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encrypting it along the way.
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A lease can be specified when writing with the "lease" field. If given, then
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when the secret is read, Vault will report a lease with that duration. It
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is expected that the consumer of this backend properly writes renewed keys
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before the lease is up. In addition, revocation must be handled by the
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user of this backend.
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```
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## Usage
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There are no flags beyond the [standard set of flags](/docs/commands)
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included on all commands.
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