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| author | MarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com> | 2020-04-24 14:22:10 -0400 |
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| committer | MarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com> | 2020-04-24 14:22:14 -0400 |
| commit | 7812889849eb936afadc7267b51ad3768b2adf94 (patch) | |
| tree | 8e955bea8a8c0c9fbb3bc11a8a345f2588d79105 | |
| parent | d1aa0ae1ad64618765601011bb23e9986ae79aba (diff) | |
| parent | a2a03c3ca94b1cdd279ac09f2a81e04d262586fd (diff) | |
Merge #18157: doc: fixing init.md documentation to not require rpcpassword
a2a03c3ca94b1cdd279ac09f2a81e04d262586fd fixing documentation to not require rpcpassword (“jkcd”)
Pull request description:
Configuration section in [doc/init.md](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/init.md) says user must set rpcpassword in order to run bitcoind. Since [71cbea](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/71cbeaad9a929ba6a7b62d9b37a09b214ae00c1a) fixed the code to use a cookie for authentication, it is not mandatory to set rpcpassword in the configuration.
Fixes #16346
ACKs for top commit:
hebasto:
ACK a2a03c3ca94b1cdd279ac09f2a81e04d262586fd, modulo nit
Tree-SHA512: a62816fef78bed32200bb278cfc7aacf6ea154a60fdf5181927e48b806a1bd694bdf3ccec8362f5e58aad694d636c63f540323d54d85b61deaa417b95b8b56eb
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/init.md | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/init.md b/doc/init.md index 0b327aab58..99aa0a0def 100644 --- a/doc/init.md +++ b/doc/init.md @@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ The macOS configuration assumes bitcoind will be set up for the current user. Configuration --------------------------------- -At a bare minimum, bitcoind requires that the rpcpassword setting be set -when running as a daemon. If the configuration file does not exist or this -setting is not set, bitcoind will shut down promptly after startup. +Running bitcoind as a daemon does not require any manual configuration. You may +set the `rpcauth` setting in the `bitcoin.conf` configuration file to override +the default behaviour of using a special cookie for authentication. This password does not have to be remembered or typed as it is mostly used as a fixed token that bitcoind and client programs read from the configuration |