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rpc: Generate auth cookie in hex instead of base64

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Base64 contains '/', and the '/' character in credentials is problematic
for AuthServiceProxy which represents the RPC endpoint as an URI with
user and password embedded.

Closes #8399.
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Wladimir J. van der Laan 2016-10-01 16:57:25 +02:00
parent 6faffb8a83
commit 1c80386bce
1 changed files with 4 additions and 3 deletions
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src/rpc/protocol.cpp
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@ -77,9 +77,10 @@ boost::filesystem::path GetAuthCookieFile()
bool GenerateAuthCookie(std::string *cookie_out)
{
unsigned char rand_pwd[32];
GetRandBytes(rand_pwd, 32);
std::string cookie = COOKIEAUTH_USER + ":" + EncodeBase64(&rand_pwd[0],32);
const size_t COOKIE_SIZE = 32;
unsigned char rand_pwd[COOKIE_SIZE];
GetRandBytes(rand_pwd, COOKIE_SIZE);
std::string cookie = COOKIEAUTH_USER + ":" + HexStr(rand_pwd, rand_pwd+COOKIE_SIZE);
/** the umask determines what permissions are used to create this file -
* these are set to 077 in init.cpp unless overridden with -sysperms.