Since I am a complete newbie in Postman and have been studying it for a few weeks, I need your advice on how to use vault data in environment variables. It seems as if it is impossible to use data from vaults in env variables. Whenever I put something like this “{{Vault::PASS}}” into a variable, let’s call it PASS, and substitute the env variable in a request, Postman uses “{{Vault::PASS}}” in clear text and does not grab data from my local vault.
Please advise me on how to meet my requirements, if it is technically possible.
Again, I need the following:
Local Vault keeps a password
I create an Environment variable pointing to the password stored in the vault.
Could you provide a little more context around your workflow, please?
If there a reason that you wanted to pass those into a different variable scope? You can directly add the variables from the Postman Vault into your Collection elements (Requests, Scripts, etc.) using the {{vault:PASS}} syntax.
This was also a different method/workaround that was used by a different user for their workflow:
Postman offers several built-in ways to manage secrets securely, and the Postman Local Vault is a key one. The Local Vault stores credentials only on your device and never syncs them to the cloud, meaning even workspace admins and teammates can’t access them. It also clears automatically on sign-out, so your data can’t be compromised if your device or account is ever at risk.
If your workflow needs to reference vault-stored secrets directly, you can add them into your requests or scripts using the {{$vault:VARIABLE_NAME}} syntax without moving them into other shared variables. This helps you keep sensitive information isolated and under your control.
