Is it intentional that rclone asks for the config password when just passing -V/–version the check things?
Just a thought - never quite sure what I have installed around the place 
I think that is probably an accident! Rclone is quite a big program now and the initialisation is quite complicated so I think it just got missed!
If you’d like to see it fixed please make a new issue on github and I’ll see if I can find a volunteer to fix it
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