---
title: "rclone obscure"
description: "Obscure password for use in the rclone config file"
slug: rclone_obscure
url: /commands/rclone_obscure/
# autogenerated - DO NOT EDIT, instead edit the source code in cmd/obscure/ and as part of making a release run "make commanddocs"
---
# rclone obscure

Obscure password for use in the rclone config file

## Synopsis

In the rclone config file, human readable passwords are
obscured. Obscuring them is done by encrypting them and writing them
out in base64. This is **not** a secure way of encrypting these
passwords as rclone can decrypt them - it is to prevent "eyedropping"
- namely someone seeing a password in the rclone config file by
accident.

Many equally important things (like access tokens) are not obscured in
the config file. However it is very hard to shoulder surf a 64
character hex token.

If you want to encrypt the config file then please use config file
encryption - see [rclone config](/commands/rclone_config/) for more
info.

```
rclone obscure password [flags]
```

## Options

```
  -h, --help   help for obscure
```

See the [global flags page](/flags/) for global options not listed here.

## SEE ALSO

* [rclone](/commands/rclone/)	 - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.