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Title: Authorization failed: Incorrect rpcuser or rpcpassword Post by: BlackHatCoiner on April 29, 2021, 05:02:43 PM For some reason, once I enter the following command on the terminal I get this error:
Code: angelo@angelopc:~/Desktop/bitcoin/bin$ ./bitcoin-cli --testnet --rpcuser=test123456 --rpcpassword=123456 --netinfo The thing is that these are the correct credentials, I haven't made any mistakes. Here's my bitcoin.conf: Code: server=1 What is going on? FYI, the configuration file is located on an external drive, while the binaries of Bitcoin Core are on my internal SSD. Title: Re: Authorization failed: Incorrect rpcuser or rpcpassword Post by: NotATether on April 29, 2021, 05:15:13 PM If you use the password in the .cookie file instead of writing your password on the command line, and remove the rpcuser and rpcpassword entries from your bitcoin.conf, does it work then?
Some other useful information: The problem is that bitcoind uses the cookie not the password from the config. I put a std::cout in RPCAuthorized() in httprpc.cpp std::cout << strUserPass << "\n" << strRPCUserColonPass<<"\n"; The output is: REPLACED:REPLACED __cookie__:0723ef24069e50123146dca0d76488bb0583781fc55e254b78be93eaf2764745 Title: Re: Authorization failed: Incorrect rpcuser or rpcpassword Post by: BlackHatCoiner on April 29, 2021, 05:26:14 PM If you use the password in the .cookie file instead of writing your password on the command line Use it where and how? Title: Re: Authorization failed: Incorrect rpcuser or rpcpassword Post by: NotATether on April 29, 2021, 06:10:19 PM If you use the password in the .cookie file instead of writing your password on the command line Use it where and how? Instead of --rpcuser=test123456 --rpcpassword=123456, write --rpcuser=__cookie__ --rpcpassword=<long hex string inside the .cookie file> and remove the stuff from your config file since the .cookie file is autogenerated at runtime. Title: Re: Authorization failed: Incorrect rpcuser or rpcpassword Post by: BlackHatCoiner on April 29, 2021, 06:24:24 PM Instead of --rpcuser=test123456 --rpcpassword=123456, write --rpcuser=__cookie__ --rpcpassword=<long hex string inside the .cookie file> and remove the stuff from your config file since the .cookie file is autogenerated at runtime. Yes, it works! Thank you. Title: Re: Authorization failed: Incorrect rpcuser or rpcpassword Post by: gmaxwell on April 30, 2021, 02:58:06 AM Your bitcoin.conf configured rpcpassword likely had non-permitted characters (such as #) and so it was getting ignored.
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