Make rclone ask for password each time (koofr vault)

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Hi. I tried to configure rclone to mount koofr vaults. Everything is fine, rclone mounts and decrypts files but my desktop is used by different users and I'd like to configure rclone to ask password every time it mounts vault. Because if password is stored in any form someone just uses “rclone mount” (or just by viewing powershell history) and that's it - he gains access. Upon configuring rclone does not let to omit password entering, deleting password lines leads to errors. I tried to ask all AIs, but got no answer. It seems in previous versions (according to AI) there was an option to omit password but not now?

--ask-password also does not make rclone to ask for password.

rclone v1.71.2

  • os/version: Microsoft Windows 11 Home 24H2 24H2 (64 bit)
  • os/kernel: 10.0.26100.6899 (x86_64)
  • os/type: windows
  • os/arch: amd64
  • go/version: go1.25.3
  • go/linking: static
  • go/tags: cmount
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if you encrypt the rclone config file, then must supply a password.

if the other users are non-admin, then run rclone as a system service

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yep, that worked but it’s another password to remember.

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Not sure what exactly you want. You cannot both password protect information and not having to supply a password to access it. Any reason not to use the same password for config encryption and inside the encrypted config file (for crypt remote)

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Or use one password (or any other authentication method) to unlock local key store where all other passwords are stored. All operating systems nowadays offer such functionality natively.