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