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-RPC Tools
----------------------
-
-### [RPCUser](/share/rpcuser) ###
-
-Create an RPC user login credential.
-
-Usage:
-
-    ./rpcuser.py <username>
diff --git a/share/rpcuser/rpcuser.py b/share/rpcuser/rpcuser.py
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-#!/usr/bin/env python
-# Copyright (c) 2015-2016 The Bitcoin Core developers
-# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying 
-# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
-
-import hashlib
-import sys
-import os
-from random import SystemRandom
-import base64
-import hmac
-
-if len(sys.argv) < 2:
-    sys.stderr.write('Please include username as an argument.\n')
-    sys.exit(0)
-
-username = sys.argv[1]
-
-#This uses os.urandom() underneath
-cryptogen = SystemRandom()
-
-#Create 16 byte hex salt
-salt_sequence = [cryptogen.randrange(256) for i in range(16)]
-hexseq = list(map(hex, salt_sequence))
-salt = "".join([x[2:] for x in hexseq])
-
-#Create 32 byte b64 password
-password = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(os.urandom(32))
-
-digestmod = hashlib.sha256
-
-if sys.version_info.major >= 3:
-    password = password.decode('utf-8')
-    digestmod = 'SHA256'
- 
-m = hmac.new(bytearray(salt, 'utf-8'), bytearray(password, 'utf-8'), digestmod)
-result = m.hexdigest()
-
-print("String to be appended to bitcoin.conf:")
-print("rpcauth="+username+":"+salt+"$"+result)
-print("Your password:\n"+password)