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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.
import hmac
def generate_salt(size):
"""Create size byte hex salt"""
return urandom(size).hex()
def generate_password():
"""Create 32 byte b64 password"""
return urlsafe_b64encode(urandom(32)).decode('utf-8')
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='?')
args = parser.parse_args()
if not args.password:
args.password = generate_password()
elif args.password == '-':
args.password = getpass()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()