[RPC] Authentication bug on Regtest on Ubuntu Xenial? #13977

issue NicolasDorier openend this issue on August 15, 2018

NicolasDorier commented at 2:05 am on August 15, 2018: contributor

Repro on Xenial

0DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
1DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
2DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
3DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS"

With Bitcoin Core version v0.16.2.0-g2848aa808f (release build)

0sudo apt-get install bitcoind
1nohup bitcoind -regtest &
2sleep 5
3bitcoin-cli -regtest getblockchaininfo

Same result with ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin.

0error: incorrect rpcuser or rpcpassword (authorization failed)

Show me the result of the command

Then I tried the following:

0bitcoind -regtest -rpcuser=blah -rpcpassword=blah -printtoconsole &
1sleep 5
2bitcoin-cli -regtest -rpcuser=blah -rpcpassword=blah getblockchaininfo

Same result

0error: incorrect rpcuser or rpcpassword (authorization failed)

Something is wrong with the rpc authentication?

EDIT:

Tested without -regtest and it works. Tested with -testnet and it works.

Seems this bug is limited to regtest. Tested on Windows, everything works fine.

fanquake added the label RPC/REST/ZMQ on Aug 15, 2018
fanquake added the label Linux/Unix on Aug 15, 2018
NicolasDorier renamed this:
~~[RPC] Authentication bug on the Ubuntu package?~~
[RPC] Authentication bug on Regtest?
on Aug 15, 2018
NicolasDorier renamed this:
~~[RPC] Authentication bug on Regtest?~~
[RPC] Authentication bug on Regtest on Ubuntu Xenial?
on Aug 15, 2018
NicolasDorier commented at 2:12 am on August 15, 2018: contributor

So tested on windows: It works as expected. Tested on mainnet and testnet on Ubuntu. It works as expected.

Seems the bug is only on regtest?
NicolasDorier commented at 2:18 am on August 15, 2018: contributor

Closing this! Sorry I was using Windows + WSL, and on Ubuntu it was trying to connect to my Windows instance :/
NicolasDorier closed this on Aug 15, 2018
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