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config: use the environment variable which goes with --password-command

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Nick Craig-Wood
2020-01-23 13:54:18 +00:00
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@@ -880,6 +880,14 @@ Rclone will do its best to transfer the best file it has so in
practice this should not cause a problem. Think of `--order-by` as
being more of a best efforts flag rather than a perfect ordering.
### --password-command=STRING ###
This flag supplies a program which should supply the config password
when run. This is an alternative to rclone prompting for the password
or setting the `RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS` variable.
See the [Configuration Encryption](#configuration-encryption) for more info.
### -P, --progress ###
This flag makes rclone update the stats in a static block in the
@@ -1361,13 +1369,13 @@ which will retrieve the password and print on standard output. This
script should have a fully specified path name and not rely on any
environment variables. The script is supplied either via
`--password-command="..."` command line argument or via the
`RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS_COMMAND` environment variable.
`RCLONE_PASSWORD_COMMAND` environment variable.
One useful example of this is using the `passwordstore` application
to retrieve the password:
```
export RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS_COMMAND="pass rclone/config"
export RCLONE_PASSWORD_COMMAND="pass rclone/config"
```
If the `passwordstore` password manager holds the password for the
@@ -1381,11 +1389,11 @@ script method of supplying the password enhances the security of
the config password considerably.
If you are running rclone inside a script, unless you are using the
`RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS_COMMAND` method, you might want to disable
`--password-command` method, you might want to disable
password prompts. To do that, pass the parameter
`--ask-password=false` to rclone. This will make rclone fail instead
of asking for a password if `RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS` doesn't contain
a valid password, and `RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS_COMMAND` has not been supplied.
a valid password, and `--password-command` has not been supplied.
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