Hi, I noticed that bitcoin service stores the RPC password in bitcoin.conf which is not best practice anymore.
I guess I could simply go ahead and manually change that in the bitcoin.conf file replacing user and password with the rpcauth field but I am wondering if other services accessing my bitcoin node (electrs, mempool, JAM, etc) would still work.
If so, why isn’t rpcauth a default in the Start9 implementation of bitcoin service?
Thanks
Cookie auth is the solution. It will remove the password from bitcoin.conf and still allow other services to work.
This has been implemented already for a future release of the packaging of Bitcoin Core. That packaging will be available with the next StartOS release.
The next StartOS is still in Alpha testing, but is being pushed rapidly and will be released for a public Beta test - as soon as it is ready.
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Hi Jesse, thanks for your reply!
Can I manually change to Cookie auth right away or do I need to wait for the next StartOS release for other services to still connect to my full node?
You need to wait for the next release (coming soon!)