1---
2title: "rclone obscure"
3description: "Obscure password for use in the rclone config file."
4slug: rclone_obscure
5url: /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
10Obscure password for use in the rclone config file.
11
12## Synopsis
13
14In the rclone config file, human readable passwords are
15obscured. Obscuring them is done by encrypting them and writing them
16out in base64. This is **not** a secure way of encrypting these
17passwords as rclone can decrypt them - it is to prevent "eyedropping"
18- namely someone seeing a password in the rclone config file by
19accident.
20
21Many equally important things (like access tokens) are not obscured in
22the config file. However it is very hard to shoulder surf a 64
23character hex token.
24
25This command can also accept a password through STDIN instead of an
26argument by passing a hyphen as an argument. This will use the first
27line of STDIN as the password not including the trailing newline.
28
29echo "secretpassword" | rclone obscure -
30
31If there is no data on STDIN to read, rclone obscure will default to
32obfuscating the hyphen itself.
33
34If you want to encrypt the config file then please use config file
35encryption - see [rclone config](/commands/rclone_config/) for more
36info.
37
38```
39rclone obscure password [flags]
40```
41
42## Options
43
44```
45  -h, --help   help for obscure
46```
47
48See the [global flags page](/flags/) for global options not listed here.
49
50## SEE ALSO
51
52* [rclone](/commands/rclone/)	 - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.
53
54