/rclone_authorize

title: "rclone authorize"
description: "Remote authorization."
versionIntroduced: v1.27
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> **Official documentation:** [https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_authorize/](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_authorize/)

rclone authorize

Remote authorization.

Synopsis

Remote authorization. Used to authorize a remote or headless rclone from a machine with a browser. Use as instructed by rclone config. See also the [remote setup documentation](/remote_setup).

The command requires 1-3 arguments:

• Name of a backend (e.g. "drive", "s3")
• Either a base64 encoded JSON blob obtained from a previous rclone config session
• Or a client_id and client_secret pair obtained from the remote service

Use --auth-no-open-browser to prevent rclone to open auth link in default browser automatically.

Use --template to generate HTML output via a custom Go template. If a blank string is provided as an argument to this flag, the default template is used.

rclone authorize <backendname> [base64_json_blob | client_id client_secret] [flags]

Options

      --auth-no-open-browser   Do not automatically open auth link in default browser
  -h, --help                   help for authorize
      --template string        The path to a custom Go template for generating HTML responses

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

See Also

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

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