Your bitcoin.conf configured rpcpassword likely had non-permitted characters (such as #) and so it was getting ignored.
Topic: Authorization failed: Incorrect rpcuser or rpcpassword (Read 173 times)
Instead of --rpcuser=test123456 --rpcpassword=123456, write --rpcuser=__cookie__ --rpcpassword=
Yes, it works! Thank you.
If you use the password in the .cookie file instead of writing your password on the command line
Use it where and how?
Instead of --rpcuser=test123456 --rpcpassword=123456, write --rpcuser=__cookie__ --rpcpassword=
If you use the password in the .cookie file instead of writing your password on the command line
Use it where and how?
If you use the password in the .cookie file instead of writing your password on the command line, and remove the rpcuser and rpcpassword entries from your bitcoin.conf, does it work then?
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The problem is that bitcoind uses the cookie not the password from the config.
I put a std::cout in RPCAuthorized() in httprpc.cpp
std::cout << strUserPass << "\n" << strRPCUserColonPass<<"\n";
The output is:
REPLACED:REPLACED
__cookie__:0723ef24069e50123146dca0d76488bb0583781fc55e254b78be93eaf2764745
I put a std::cout in RPCAuthorized() in httprpc.cpp
std::cout << strUserPass << "\n" << strRPCUserColonPass<<"\n";
The output is:
REPLACED:REPLACED
__cookie__:0723ef24069e50123146dca0d76488bb0583781fc55e254b78be93eaf2764745
For some reason, once I enter the following command on the terminal I get this error:
The thing is that these are the correct credentials, I haven't made any mistakes. Here's my bitcoin.conf:
What is going on? FYI, the configuration file is located on an external drive, while the binaries of Bitcoin Core are on my internal SSD.
Code:
angelo@angelopc:~/Desktop/bitcoin/bin$ ./bitcoin-cli --testnet --rpcuser=test123456 --rpcpassword=123456 --netinfo
error: Authorization failed: Incorrect rpcuser or rpcpassword
error: Authorization failed: Incorrect rpcuser or rpcpassword
The thing is that these are the correct credentials, I haven't made any mistakes. Here's my bitcoin.conf:
Code:
server=1
listen=1
daemon=1
txindex=1
rpcuser=test123456
rpcpassword=123456
listen=1
daemon=1
txindex=1
rpcuser=test123456
rpcpassword=123456
What is going on? FYI, the configuration file is located on an external drive, while the binaries of Bitcoin Core are on my internal SSD.
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