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authorwillcl-ark <will@256k1.dev>2024-04-22 12:24:09 +0100
committerwillcl-ark <will@256k1.dev>2024-06-27 15:08:27 +0100
commit73f0a6cbd0b628675028fbd5a37eff8115e7ccfe (patch)
tree37be25624c84fecc5103760e37d8ec5cada88aa7
parentd2afa2690cceb0012b2aa1960e1cfa497f3103fa (diff)
doc: detail -rpccookieperms option
Co-authored-by: tdb3 <106488469+tdb3@users.noreply.github.com>
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@@ -35,8 +35,10 @@ it will use a special cookie file for authentication. The cookie is generated wi
content when the daemon starts, and deleted when it exits. Read access to this file
controls who can access it through RPC.
-By default the cookie is stored in the data directory, but it's location can be overridden
-with the option '-rpccookiefile'.
+By default the cookie is stored in the data directory, but its location can be
+overridden with the option `-rpccookiefile`. Default file permissions for the
+cookie are "owner" (i.e. user read/writeable) via default application-wide file
+umask of `0077`, but these can be overridden with the `-rpccookieperms` option.
This allows for running bitcoind without having to do any manual configuration.