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authorGregory Sanders <gsanders87@gmail.com>2016-12-21 08:45:59 -0500
committerGregory Sanders <gsanders87@gmail.com>2016-12-21 09:39:45 -0500
commit0513c707aa1e356bc4da609bf0263cc684b0d6e3 (patch)
tree68be7494f76793c80691b780c5d0d20f10a22dfa /src
parent5a70572049d0e8a2e9228e7acf0e07d61996c33c (diff)
Make rpcauth help message clearer, add example in example .conf
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/init.cpp2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
index e642729a99..659b83e474 100644
--- a/src/init.cpp
+++ b/src/init.cpp
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ std::string HelpMessage(HelpMessageMode mode)
strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-rpccookiefile=<loc>", _("Location of the auth cookie (default: data dir)"));
strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-rpcuser=<user>", _("Username for JSON-RPC connections"));
strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-rpcpassword=<pw>", _("Password for JSON-RPC connections"));
- strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-rpcauth=<userpw>", _("Username and hashed password for JSON-RPC connections. The field <userpw> comes in the format: <USERNAME>:<SALT>$<HASH>. A canonical python script is included in share/rpcuser. This option can be specified multiple times"));
+ strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-rpcauth=<userpw>", _("Username and hashed password for JSON-RPC connections. The field <userpw> comes in the format: <USERNAME>:<SALT>$<HASH>. A canonical python script is included in share/rpcuser. The client then connects normally using the rpcuser=<USERNAME>/rpcpassword=<PASSWORD> pair of arguments. This option can be specified multiple times"));
strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-rpcport=<port>", strprintf(_("Listen for JSON-RPC connections on <port> (default: %u or testnet: %u)"), BaseParams(CBaseChainParams::MAIN).RPCPort(), BaseParams(CBaseChainParams::TESTNET).RPCPort()));
strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-rpcallowip=<ip>", _("Allow JSON-RPC connections from specified source. Valid for <ip> are a single IP (e.g. 1.2.3.4), a network/netmask (e.g. 1.2.3.4/255.255.255.0) or a network/CIDR (e.g. 1.2.3.4/24). This option can be specified multiple times"));
strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-rpcthreads=<n>", strprintf(_("Set the number of threads to service RPC calls (default: %d)"), DEFAULT_HTTP_THREADS));