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@@ -13,9 +13,8 @@ Obscure password for use in the rclone config file.
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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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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 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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@@ -25,7 +24,9 @@ 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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```console
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echo "secretpassword" | rclone obscure -
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```
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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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@@ -48,5 +49,10 @@ 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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