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    November 16, 2022, 09:08:49 PM
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    Quote from: btctotoro on November 16, 2022, 05:14:19 PM
    Hi N0nce,

    I followed the steps you outlined to install bitcoin-cli.  Doesn't appear to have worked, unfortunately.  I am getting the same error after installation in the debug file and when I ran bitcoin-cli echo 'hello world', I got the following:

    error: Could not locate RPC credentials. No authentication cookie could be found, and RPC password is not set.  See -rpcpassword and -stdinrpcpass.  Configuration file: (/home/futurebit/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf)

    I'm thinking I don't actually have bitcoin-cli installed as when I entered the command sudo install -m 0755 -o root -g root -tusr/local/bin bin/bitcoin-cli, the command line simply reloaded to the base user and nothing was communicated about installation.
    No, no, that all looks good. It just means Bitcoin Core is running as a different user. I get that when running bitcoin-cli as a different user than the actual Bitcoin Core bitcoind daemon.

    I seriously hope it isn't the case, but it is possible that on default Futurebit OS, Core runs as root. To verify, try sudo bitcoin-cli getinfo.

    If my suspicion holds true, you would need to create RPC credentials like the error message suggests.
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    November 16, 2022, 09:15:40 PM
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    error: Could not locate RPC credentials. No authentication cookie could be found, and RPC password is not set.  See -rpcpassword and -stdinrpcpass.  Configuration file: (/root/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf)

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    November 16, 2022, 10:18:51 PM
    Last edit: November 16, 2022, 10:32:49 PM by n0nce
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    Quote from: btctotoro on November 16, 2022, 09:15:40 PM
    Ran it, here is the result  Sad

    error: Could not locate RPC credentials. No authentication cookie could be found, and RPC password is not set.  See -rpcpassword and -stdinrpcpass.  Configuration file: (/root/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf)


    Here is how to create RPC credentials:
    Code:
    git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git
    cd bitcoin
    git checkout v23.0
    cd share/rpcauth/
    python3 rpcauth.py the_username_of_the_user_you_want cleartext_password_unique_long

    It will output a hash that you want to store (e.g. in a text file) for the very last step. You can trash that afterwards.

    Then delete shell history:
    Code:
    history -c
    history -w

    Finally add this line to the Bitcoin configuration file (in your case at /root/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf)
    Code:
    rpcauth=the_username_of_the_user_you_want:hash_that_you_had_to_store_for_this_step

    After these changes, reboot Apollo and cross fingers Cheesy
    You should be able to access bitcoin-cli from any user now, as long as you specify -rpcuser=<user> -rpcpassword=<password>.

    Lightning will need to know those parameters as well, though.
    Add to lightningd.conf and reboot again:
    Code:
    --bitcoin-rpcuser <user>
    --bitcoin-rpcpassword <password>
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