I tried using a 40 character username and password for my bitcoind server, and it made it impossible for me to connect to it. Changing it to something simpler appears to solve the problem. However, the problem gets more serious when switching from a simple username and password to the complex one - my bitcoind instance appeared to be responding to the simple username and password after restart (even though they were no longer in bitcoin.conf).
Running bitcoind with long rpcuser and rpcpassword #3079
issue ThePiachu opened this issue on October 11, 2013-
ThePiachu commented at 7:01 AM on October 11, 2013: none
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gmaxwell commented at 7:16 AM on October 11, 2013: contributor
@ThePiachu Are you actually sure that you're restarting it? What you're describing isn't obviously possible: Where would it get the other string from?
I would suspect that the issue with your long password was the presence of characters like ?&<># getting munged in the encoding for http. Is this a possibility?
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ThePiachu commented at 4:19 AM on October 14, 2013: none
Hmm, trying to reproduce this issue today was unsuccessful. I guess it must've been some sort of fluke last time, or I was doing something wrong.
At any rate, the password was just alphanumerical characters, no punctuation or anything.
I will just close the issue since I can't reproduce it any more.
- ThePiachu closed this on Oct 14, 2013
- MarcoFalke locked this on Sep 8, 2021
