---
id: keepercommander
version: "18.1.1"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# keepercommander — Keeper Commander for Python 3

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 78.6K/mo

## What it is and what it does

Keeper Commander is a Python-based interface to Keeper's password management and privileged access management (PAM) platform. It provides both an interactive command-line shell and a full terminal UI (supershell) for vault operations, administrative functions, and programmatic access through a REST API in service mode.

The tool is designed for teams and enterprises that need to manage credentials, rotate passwords, control access to privileged resources, and integrate credential management into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows. It handles vault access, user and team administration, SSO configuration, device approvals, data import/export, and biometric authentication on supported platforms. The package includes a large set of cryptographic and platform-specific dependencies to support these features across Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Use it for:

- Automate password rotation and credential lifecycle management in infrastructure and application environments.
- Integrate Keeper vault access into CI/CD pipelines and developer tools to eliminate hardcoded secrets.
- Manage privileged access and administrative approvals for infrastructure teams via command-line workflows.
- Run Keeper as a REST service for programmatic vault queries and credential retrieval from other applications.
- Set up persistent login sessions and biometric authentication for secure, hands-free vault access on supported devices.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Keeper Commander is a command-line and terminal UI tool for managing Keeper Password Manager and KeeperPAM vaults, supporting vault access, administrative tasks, password rotation, session management, and REST service deployment.

Yes, if you use Keeper Password Manager or KeeperPAM and need command-line automation or administrative control. The active maintenance, permissive license, and broad Python version support make it production-ready. The large dependency footprint is justified by its feature scope, but verify compatibility in your target environment before deployment.

## Install

pip install keepercommander
uv add keepercommander
poetry add keepercommander

## Installing keepercommander

Before you install: Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel. Active maintenance as of 2026-08-14 with recent commits. Supports Python 3.8 through 3.14. Large dependency surface (33 runtime packages including cryptography, flask, and platform-specific libraries) is typical for a full-featured credential management tool.

License in practice: MIT license (permissive) allows commercial and private use with minimal restrictions, making it suitable for enterprise deployment and integration scenarios.

Quickstart:

pip install keepercommander
keeper help
keeper shell

Requires Python 3.8 or later. Some features (biometric authentication, PAM integration) depend on platform-specific libraries (pyobjc-framework-LocalAuthentication on macOS, winrt-* on Windows).

Verify before relying:

- Whether the 33 runtime dependencies can be cleanly installed in all target environments without version conflicts.
- Performance characteristics and resource usage when managing large vaults or running in service mode.
- Specific administrative capabilities and their prerequisites (SSO setup, device approval workflows, etc.).

## Package facts

- License: MIT (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 78.6K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

password manager cli, keeper vault command line, privileged access management tool, password rotation automation, keeper pam commander, vault administration cli, secrets management terminal, credential-management, cli-tool, privileged-access

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