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     1  ---
     2  title: "rclone obscure"
     3  description: "Obscure password for use in the rclone config file"
     4  slug: rclone_obscure
     5  url: /commands/rclone_obscure/
     6  # autogenerated - DO NOT EDIT, instead edit the source code in cmd/obscure/ and as part of making a release run "make commanddocs"
     7  ---
     8  # rclone obscure
     9  
    10  Obscure password for use in the rclone config file
    11  
    12  ## Synopsis
    13  
    14  In the rclone config file, human readable passwords are
    15  obscured. Obscuring them is done by encrypting them and writing them
    16  out in base64. This is **not** a secure way of encrypting these
    17  passwords as rclone can decrypt them - it is to prevent "eyedropping"
    18  - namely someone seeing a password in the rclone config file by
    19  accident.
    20  
    21  Many equally important things (like access tokens) are not obscured in
    22  the config file. However it is very hard to shoulder surf a 64
    23  character hex token.
    24  
    25  If you want to encrypt the config file then please use config file
    26  encryption - see [rclone config](/commands/rclone_config/) for more
    27  info.
    28  
    29  ```
    30  rclone obscure password [flags]
    31  ```
    32  
    33  ## Options
    34  
    35  ```
    36    -h, --help   help for obscure
    37  ```
    38  
    39  See the [global flags page](/flags/) for global options not listed here.
    40  
    41  ## SEE ALSO
    42  
    43  * [rclone](/commands/rclone/)	 - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.
    44