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Diffstat (limited to 'src/bitcoin-cli.cpp')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/bitcoin-cli.cpp | 24 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp b/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp index 903777ba51..1c5a312874 100644 --- a/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp +++ b/src/bitcoin-cli.cpp @@ -97,12 +97,6 @@ static bool AppInitRPC(int argc, char* argv[]) UniValue CallRPC(const string& strMethod, const UniValue& params) { - if (mapArgs["-rpcuser"] == "" && mapArgs["-rpcpassword"] == "") - throw runtime_error(strprintf( - _("You must set rpcpassword=<password> in the configuration file:\n%s\n" - "If the file does not exist, create it with owner-readable-only file permissions."), - GetConfigFile().string().c_str())); - // Connect to localhost bool fUseSSL = GetBoolArg("-rpcssl", false); boost::asio::io_service io_service; @@ -116,10 +110,24 @@ UniValue CallRPC(const string& strMethod, const UniValue& params) if (!fConnected) throw CConnectionFailed("couldn't connect to server"); + // Find credentials to use + std::string strRPCUserColonPass; + if (mapArgs["-rpcpassword"] == "") { + // Try fall back to cookie-based authentication if no password is provided + if (!GetAuthCookie(&strRPCUserColonPass)) { + throw runtime_error(strprintf( + _("You must set rpcpassword=<password> in the configuration file:\n%s\n" + "If the file does not exist, create it with owner-readable-only file permissions."), + GetConfigFile().string().c_str())); + + } + } else { + strRPCUserColonPass = mapArgs["-rpcuser"] + ":" + mapArgs["-rpcpassword"]; + } + // HTTP basic authentication - string strUserPass64 = EncodeBase64(mapArgs["-rpcuser"] + ":" + mapArgs["-rpcpassword"]); map<string, string> mapRequestHeaders; - mapRequestHeaders["Authorization"] = string("Basic ") + strUserPass64; + mapRequestHeaders["Authorization"] = string("Basic ") + EncodeBase64(strRPCUserColonPass); // Send request string strRequest = JSONRPCRequest(strMethod, params, 1); |