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doc: detail -rpccookieperms option
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content when the daemon starts, and deleted when it exits. Read access to this file
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controls who can access it through RPC.
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By default the cookie is stored in the data directory, but it's location can be overridden
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with the option '-rpccookiefile'.
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By default the cookie is stored in the data directory, but its location can be
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overridden with the option `-rpccookiefile`. Default file permissions for the
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cookie are "owner" (i.e. user read/writeable) via default application-wide file
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umask of `0077`, but these can be overridden with the `-rpccookieperms` option.
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This allows for running bitcoind without having to do any manual configuration.
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