Using rclone via environment variables

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What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I can't seem to get rclone working when using it with environment-variable config only. It does not seem to authorize properly. I'm using this config:

export RCLONE_CONFIG_DAVINT_TYPE="webdav"
export RCLONE_CONFIG_DAVINT_URL="https://webdav-int.cluster.somewhere.org/mydir"
export RCLONE_CONFIG_DAVINT_VENDOR="other"
export RCLONE_CONFIG_DAVINT_USER="myuser"
export RCLONE_CONFIG_DAVINT_PASSWORD="somepassword"

The same config from a configuration file works fine. I tried both with plaintext password and with the encrypted password string from the config file.

What is your rclone version (output from rclone version)

rclone v1.45
- os/arch: linux/amd64
- go version: go1.11.6

Which OS you are using and how many bits (eg Windows 7, 64 bit)

Linux/64

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

WebDAV

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

rclone ls DAVINT:

A log from the command with the -vv flag (eg output from rclone -vv copy /tmp remote:tmp)

2019/11/03 07:17:28 DEBUG : rclone: Version "v1.45" starting with parameters ["rclone" "-vv" "ls" "DAVINT:"]
2019/11/03 07:17:28 DEBUG : Using config file from "/root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
2019/11/03 07:17:29 ERROR : : error listing: couldn't list files: 401 Unauthorized
2019/11/03 07:17:29 Failed to ls: couldn't list files: 401 Unauthorized
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1.45 is pretty old. Do you want to validate the same issue happens with the latest?

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welcome to the forum.
this could be a simple typo or misspelling,

  1. double check the information,
  2. cut and paste directly from rclone config dump.
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This is probably the problem...

The password needs to be run through rclone osbscure first, so

export RCLONE_CONFIG_DAVINT_PASSWORD=`rclone obscure "somepassword"`
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