bitcoin.conf / lnd.conf user credentials error (unable to create partial chain control: status code: 401, response: "")

[zyklopisch]

Hello,

i have the following problem - hope that somebody can help me:

I installed lnd, created a wallet, have written down the seed and know i started lnd --> then unlocking the wallet in a separate terminal and I am getting the following error:

I think that this has to do with lnd which is not able to login with the rpc-credentials to bitcoind. I am unsure about how to define bitcoind.rpcuser and bitcoind.rpcpass in the lnd.conf, since I have defined the line rpcauth= in bitcoin.conf.

My bitcoin.conf looks like these:

My lnd.conf looks likte these:

Can anyone point me to the solution on how to fix that - what to define in lnd.conf?

lnd and bitcoind runs on the same machine, Ubuntu Server on a notebook, bitcoind is fully synced.

[guggero]

How did you create the hash for the rpcauth field in bitcoind? Are you sure the hashed password matches the one defined in bitcoind.rpcpass in lnd?

Also, I'm not sure if this could be the issue, but worth a try: You have prefixed config items (for example routing.strictgraphpruning within your global section ([Application Options]). The config parser doesn't like that and might ignore parts of it.
I'd suggest to remove all (including the top one) section headers, to get a flat config structure.

[zyklopisch]

I tried to remove all the things in the config, but this did not solve the problem. I used definitely the same password as bitcoind.rpcpass= written clearly, not hashed like it is in the rpcauth= from bitcoin.conf - that should be correct is my understanding?

[guggero]

Yes, in lnd conf you write the clear text password, not the hashed one. Do you have a special character in there that could trip up the config file parser?

[zyklopisch]

Thx guggero, that was it! rpcauthy did not recognize the special characters in my password successfully and cut if somehow away.... i created a new one without special characters and now it works!