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---
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title: "rclone obscure"
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description: "Obscure password for use in the rclone config file."
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versionIntroduced: v1.36
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# autogenerated - DO NOT EDIT, instead edit the source code in cmd/obscure/ and as part of making a release run "make commanddocs"
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---
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# rclone obscure
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Obscure password for use in the rclone config file.
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## Synopsis
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In the rclone config file, human-readable passwords are
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obscured. Obscuring them is done by encrypting them and writing them
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out in base64. This is **not** a secure way of encrypting these
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passwords as rclone can decrypt them - it is to prevent "eyedropping"
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- namely someone seeing a password in the rclone config file by
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accident.
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Many equally important things (like access tokens) are not obscured in
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the config file. However it is very hard to shoulder surf a 64
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character hex token.
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This command can also accept a password through STDIN instead of an
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argument by passing a hyphen as an argument. This will use the first
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line of STDIN as the password not including the trailing newline.
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echo "secretpassword" | rclone obscure -
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If there is no data on STDIN to read, rclone obscure will default to
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obfuscating the hyphen itself.
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If you want to encrypt the config file then please use config file
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encryption - see [rclone config](/commands/rclone_config/) for more
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info.
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```
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rclone obscure password [flags]
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```
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## Options
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```
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-h, --help help for obscure
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```
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See the [global flags page](/flags/) for global options not listed here.
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# SEE ALSO
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* [rclone](/commands/rclone/) - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.
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