A bug: The wallet passphrase entered was incorrect #23295

Hi~

I'm new to bitcoin, so I just start to use Bitcoin core on my Ubuntu server.

I first created 2 wallet, one of which is called 'testwallet'.

$  bitcoin-cli createwallet testwallet false false -passphrase="test1234567" false false true 

However, when I try to unlock it for 60s:

$  bitcoin-cli -rpcwallet="testwallet" walletpassphrase "test1234567" 60

error returned:

error code: -14
error message:
Error: The wallet passphrase entered was incorrect.

It's a little bit confusing, because another one wallet seemed to be normal. Is it because I use one more wallets?

Here is the environment of my machine and bitcoin-core:

$ uname -a
Linux <servername> 5.4.0-050400-generic [#201911242031](/bitcoin-bitcoin/201911242031/) SMP Mon Nov 25 01:35:10 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ bitcoin-cli getnetworkinfo
{
  "version": 220000,
  "subversion": "/Satoshi:22.0.0/",
  "protocolversion": 70016,
  "localservices": "0000000000000409",
  "localservicesnames": [
    "NETWORK",
    "WITNESS",
    "NETWORK_LIMITED"
  ],
  "localrelay": true,
  "timeoffset": 0,
  "networkactive": true,
  "connections": 10,
  "connections_in": 0,
  "connections_out": 10,
  "networks": [
    {
      "name": "ipv4",
      "limited": false,
      "reachable": true,
      "proxy": "",
      "proxy_randomize_credentials": false
    },
    {
      "name": "ipv6",
      "limited": false,
      "reachable": true,
      "proxy": "",
      "proxy_randomize_credentials": false
    },
    {
      "name": "onion",
      "limited": true,
      "reachable": false,
      "proxy": "",
      "proxy_randomize_credentials": false
    },
    {
      "name": "i2p",
      "limited": true,
      "reachable": false,
      "proxy": "",
      "proxy_randomize_credentials": false
    }
  ],
  "relayfee": 0.00001000,
  "incrementalfee": 0.00001000,
  "localaddresses": [
  ],
  "warnings": ""
}

Hope somebody could help. Thanks a lot!

I first created 2 wallet, one of which is called 'testwallet'.

$  bitcoin-cli createwallet testwallet false false -passphrase="test1234567" false false true 

This is not the correct call, try:

$  bitcoin-cli createwallet testwallet false false test1234567 false false true 

In case you are wondering, the actual passphrase used was -passphrase=test1234567, so the following should work:

$ bitcoin-cli -rpcwallet=testwallet walletpassphrase -passphrase=test1234567 60

@promag Thanks for quick replying!

I try codes you provided and they works!

$  bitcoin-cli createwallet testwallet false false -passphrase=test1234567 false false true 
{
  "name": "testwallet",
  "warning": ""
}

$  bitcoin-cli -rpcwallet=testwallet walletpassphrase -passphrase=test1234567 60  # work well
$  bitcoin-cli -rpcwallet=testwallet walletpassphrase -passphrase="test1234567" 60  # work well

Next, I try to test more complicated passwords like test!123@45=67:

$  bitcoin-cli createwallet testwallet false false -passphrase=test!123@45=67 false false true
-bash: !123: event not found

It's hard to even create this kind of passwords! Any suggestions? Thanks a lot!

Don't use -passphrase=, it's not doing what you think.

Try

bitcoin-cli createwallet testwallet false false "test!123@45=67" false false true

$ bitcoin-cli createwallet testwallet false false "test!123@45=67" false false true
-bash: !123: event not found

This bug still appeared.

It’s not a bug, you have to escape !

OK! I think the ! should not be used in the password. Thanks a lot!

Indeed, it should be possible to generate a password of the same strength with only alpha-numeric characters.

Indeed, it should be possible to generate a password of the same strength with only alpha-numeric characters.

Thanks. You're so nice!