/rclone_config_encryption_set

title: "rclone config encryption set"
description: "Set or change the config file encryption password"
# autogenerated - DO NOT EDIT, instead edit the source code in cmd/config/encryption/set/ and as part of making a release run "make commanddocs"

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

rclone config encryption set

Set or change the config file encryption password

Synopsis

This command sets or changes the config file encryption password.

If there was no config password set then it sets a new one, otherwise it changes the existing config password.

Note that if you are changing an encryption password using `--password-command` then this will be called once to decrypt the config using the old password and then again to read the new password to re-encrypt the config.

When `--password-command` is called to change the password then the environment variable `RCLONE_PASSWORD_CHANGE=1` will be set. So if changing passwords programmatically you can use the environment variable to distinguish which password you must supply.

Alternatively you can remove the password first (with `rclone config encryption remove`), then set it again with this command which may be easier if you don't mind the unencrypted config file being on the disk briefly.

rclone config encryption set [flags]

Options

  -h, --help   help for set

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

See Also

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• [rclone config encryption](/commands/rclone_config_encryption/) - set, remove and check the encryption for the config file

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