How to invoke rclone config reconnect from the command-line

unfortunately, this is not what I'd like to do.

until my problem with Box.com tokens keep expiring? is solved -- either I'm doing something wrong there, or it's a bug -- I have devised a way to automatically reauthorize my Box logins.

I'd like to use a combo of rclone authorize and rclone config reconnect to manually repeat the oauth process.
I was trying to run: 1) rclone authorize box --auth-no-open-browser to get a local webserver url for oath redirection, 2) manually opening the browser and typing user/pass and granting the oauth, 3) inserting the token in rclone config reconnect.

the global flag you suggested prevents me from using this process: ideally, I'd imagine a flag to do everything but avoid rclone opening the browser on its own but I haven't found it.
I've also taken a look at the remote parameters such as config_refresh_token=false and config_is_local=false but neither of those use cases are helpful.

I'd like to, ideally, execute a:
rclone config reconnect REMOTE: --auto-confirm --dont-open-browser

any suggestions? thanks