It seems this part of doc/init.md:
At a bare minimum, bitcoind requires that the rpcpassword setting be set when running as a daemon. If the configuration file does not exist or this setting is not set, bitcoind will shut down promptly after startup.
is no longer the true. Or did I miss something?
You can check when the documentation was added (git blame or git log -S 'some string'), and then read the source code for that commit:
To find out when that error was removed, you can run git log -S 'some string' again:
git log -S 'rpcpassword in the configuration f'
<strike> It will spit out 71cbeaad9a929ba6a7b62d9b37a09b214ae00c1a </strike>
Looks like in master, the message was moved to the cli:
I setted up a bitcoind on systemd a week ago. The server parameter was not enabled therefore an rpcpassword was not set and it worked like a charm (for systemd conditions)
