/rclone_config

title: "rclone config"
description: "Enter an interactive configuration session."
versionIntroduced: v1.39
# autogenerated - DO NOT EDIT, instead edit the source code in cmd/config/ and as part of making a release run "make commanddocs"

> **Official documentation:** [https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config/](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_config/)

rclone config

Enter an interactive configuration session.

Synopsis

Enter an interactive configuration session where you can setup new remotes and manage existing ones. You may also set or remove a password to protect your configuration.

rclone config [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for config

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.
• [rclone config create](/commands/rclone_config_create/) - Create a new remote with name, type and options.
• [rclone config delete](/commands/rclone_config_delete/) - Delete an existing remote.
• [rclone config disconnect](/commands/rclone_config_disconnect/) - Disconnects user from remote
• [rclone config dump](/commands/rclone_config_dump/) - Dump the config file as JSON.
• [rclone config edit](/commands/rclone_config_edit/) - Enter an interactive configuration session.
• [rclone config encryption](/commands/rclone_config_encryption/) - set, remove and check the encryption for the config file
• [rclone config file](/commands/rclone_config_file/) - Show path of configuration file in use.
• [rclone config password](/commands/rclone_config_password/) - Update password in an existing remote.
• [rclone config paths](/commands/rclone_config_paths/) - Show paths used for configuration, cache, temp etc.
• [rclone config providers](/commands/rclone_config_providers/) - List in JSON format all the providers and options.
• [rclone config reconnect](/commands/rclone_config_reconnect/) - Re-authenticates user with remote.
• [rclone config redacted](/commands/rclone_config_redacted/) - Print redacted (decrypted) config file, or the redacted config for a single remote.
• [rclone config show](/commands/rclone_config_show/) - Print (decrypted) config file, or the config for a single remote.
• [rclone config string](/commands/rclone_config_string/) - Print connection string for a single remote.
• [rclone config touch](/commands/rclone_config_touch/) - Ensure configuration file exists.
• [rclone config update](/commands/rclone_config_update/) - Update options in an existing remote.
• [rclone config userinfo](/commands/rclone_config_userinfo/) - Prints info about logged in user of remote.

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