Input-from-stdin mode for bitcoin-cli #7442

issue laanwj opened this issue on January 29, 2016

laanwj commented at 12:07 PM on January 29, 2016: member

Some information passed to bitcoin-cli may be too sensitive to pass on the command line, as that can (usually) be seen by other users on the system in the ps output.

The most straightforward solution for an alternative is to add an option to bitcoin-cli that takes the input (or part of the input, e.g. the passphrase argument to walletpassphrase) from stdin instead of the command line. In contrast to a fully-fledged interactive shell (which would also be nice to have, see #3122), this can also be useful in scripts.

See #7122 (comment) for discussion.
laanwj added the label RPC on Jan 29, 2016
dcousens commented at 1:32 AM on January 30, 2016: contributor

concept ACK :+1: , I already ended up using my own RPC module that accepts stdin for this purpose.
jgarzik commented at 2:18 AM on January 30, 2016: contributor

concept ACK
luke-jr commented at 2:38 AM on January 30, 2016: member

concept ACK
paveljanik commented at 6:50 AM on January 30, 2016: contributor

Would be great, concept ACK
jonasschnelli commented at 7:57 AM on January 30, 2016: contributor

Concept ACK.
laanwj added the label Feature on Feb 17, 2016
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MarcoFalke commented at 1:51 PM on February 24, 2016: member

@laanwj Looks like this is fixed. Anything left to do here other than #3122?
laanwj closed this on Feb 24, 2016
laanwj commented at 7:03 PM on February 24, 2016: member

No, this is done, thanks for the reminder
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#3122 Adding an Interactive RPC Client.#7122 simple fix to mask command line arguments after they are copied #7550 rpc: Input-from-stdin mode for bitcoin-cli