Methods to store config password in memory?

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

@jwink3101

But again, I am wondering if this is a solved problem.

Depending on which OS you are on - yes!

Provided your password agent has a command line interface you can join it to rclone. Here is some prior art from forum searches!

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