Does bitcoin.conf expand environment variables?

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I would like to store my Bitcoin RPC passwords and usernames in environment variables, like:

rpcuser=$RPC_USER
rpcpassword=$RPC_PASSWORD

Is this supported in bitcoin core? Can environmental variables be parsed from my bitcoin.conf file?

alfetopito

Posted 2013-05-24T17:24:32.443

Reputation: 131

Very bad idea! Why should you do such a thing?o0'. 2013-05-24T17:47:02.963

Why is it a bad idea?alfetopito 2013-05-24T17:52:12.490

I don't think this is a bad idea, but I do think that this is an XY Problem.

Nick ODell 2016-01-13T23:27:46.247

This would be great to have. I use docker to host my bitcoin node and I would like to be able to have docker inject environment variables depending on production/dev etc. Have you found how to do this yet?Mr_E 2017-03-19T20:29:51.667

It's been awhile. At the time, I ended up generating the config file with the values rather than using envvars, as I found no other way to do it.alfetopito 2017-04-17T18:10:35.063

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