Get Password and Salt From Config

BarryCarey · March 7, 2020, 5:06pm

This might be a dumb question, but how can I get the plain text password out of the config.

The docs say it's only lightly obfuscated but I can't figure out how.

I thought I knew what I set it to but I was mistaken. I'm trying to avoid reuploading and encrypting 10tb of data again.

lithium0003 · March 7, 2020, 5:19pm

You can do it, see this function:

github.com

rclone/rclone/blob/dfc7215bf9b7840f438d006bf7b399974f5ebf42/fs/config/obscure/obscure.go#L71


// MustObscure obscures a value, exiting with a fatal error if it failed
func MustObscure(x string) string {
	out, err := Obscure(x)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Obscure failed: %v", err)
	}
	return out
}


// Reveal an obscured value
func Reveal(x string) (string, error) {
	ciphertext, err := base64.RawURLEncoding.DecodeString(x)
	if err != nil {
		return "", errors.Wrap(err, "base64 decode failed when revealing password - is it obscured?")
	}
	if len(ciphertext) < aes.BlockSize {
		return "", errors.New("input too short when revealing password - is it obscured?")
	}
	buf := ciphertext[aes.BlockSize:]
	iv := ciphertext[:aes.BlockSize]
	if err := crypt(buf, buf, iv); err != nil {

asdffdsa · March 7, 2020, 5:31pm

what password are you looking for?

the password that encrypts the config file?
or
the password that encrypts the remote?

if you want the password to the encrypted remote, i think you can do this?

rclone config dump > dump.txt

BarryCarey · March 7, 2020, 5:42pm

The one that encrypts the remote.

Dumping it gives you the obfuscated version.

I'm trying to setup a Freenas Cloud Sync Task, which uses Rclone, due to my Resilio sync issue. However, FreeNas doesn't appear to load a static config for it's tasks, it creates one each time in a temp directory so I can't just copy my current config.

Not the end of the world if I have to re-encrypt the remote, just a pain.

BarryCarey · March 7, 2020, 5:53pm

That did the trick, thanks!

system · March 10, 2020, 5:53pm

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