commit affe9271aa4953ddbceb1bfe4e60838570272c56
Merge: 00ada1723 79191f51b
Author: Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Aug 24 08:35:42 2017 +0200
Merge #10997: RPC: Add option -stdinrpcpass to bitcoin-cli to allow RPC password to be read from standard input
79191f5 Add option -stdinrpcpass to allow RPC password to be read from standard input (Joe Harvell)
Pull request description:
Add a new command-line option to bitcoin-cli that allows the RPC password to be read from standard intput. The purpose of this option is to allow secure RPC password input to bitcoin-cli through an external program that is capable of disabling terminal echo.
This option works similarly to the existing -stdin option, and also works when combined with that option.
I have also written a simple ncurses based program that disables echo, gets input from the terminal and writes to standard output. I couldn't find an existing askpass program that doesn't require graphics libraries, since they are primarily used for getting passwords in a graphics environment. Unless someone can point out a suitable existing askpass program, I plan to submit my ncurses program to the contrib directory separately from this pull request.
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