bitcoin/share/rpcauth/rpcauth.py

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
# Copyright (c) 2015-2021 The Bitcoin Core developers
# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
from argparse import ArgumentParser
from getpass import getpass
from secrets import token_hex, token_urlsafe
import hmac
import json
def generate_salt(size):
"""Create size byte hex salt"""
return token_hex(size)
def generate_password():
"""Create 32 byte b64 password"""
return token_urlsafe(32)
def password_to_hmac(salt, password):
m = hmac.new(salt.encode('utf-8'), password.encode('utf-8'), 'SHA256')
return m.hexdigest()
def main():
parser = ArgumentParser(description='Create login credentials for a JSON-RPC user')
parser.add_argument('username', help='the username for authentication')
parser.add_argument('password', help='leave empty to generate a random password or specify "-" to prompt for password', nargs='?')
parser.add_argument("-j", "--json", help="output to json instead of plain-text", action='store_true')
parser.add_argument('--output', dest='output', help='file to store credentials, to be used with -rpcauthfile')
args = parser.parse_args()
if not args.password:
args.password = generate_password()
elif args.password == '-':
args.password = getpass()
# Create 16 byte hex salt
salt = generate_salt(16)
password_hmac = password_to_hmac(salt, args.password)
rpcauth = f'{args.username}:{salt}${password_hmac}'
if args.output:
file = open(args.output, "a", encoding="utf8")
file.write(rpcauth + "\n")
if args.json:
odict={'username':args.username, 'password':args.password}
if not args.output:
odict['rpcauth'] = rpcauth
print(json.dumps(odict))
else:
if not args.output:
print('String to be appended to bitcoin.conf:')
print(f'rpcauth={rpcauth}')
print(f'Your password:\n{args.password}')
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()