user100546: I have installed Bitcoin v0.18.1 as user1.
Everything is fine, but now I need to let user2 access the same run so he can use bitcoin-cli as well.
However, once I log into the VM instance as user2 I get this error:
error: Could not locate RPC credentials. No authentication cookie could be found, and RPC password is not set.  See -rpcpassword and -stdinrpcpass.  Configuration file: (/home/user2/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf)
It does not matter if the users use the same wallet, I just need bitcoin-cli to work for both users and use data from user1 (full sync)

user7272: bitcoin-cli attempts to read the credentials from $HOME/.bitcoin. Since user2 will have a different home directory, bitcoin-cli will not able to find the credentials.
You can either symlink .bitcoin from user1's home directory to user2's, or alias bitcoin-cli for user2 to use -datadir=user1home/.bitcoin.
You may need to play around with the read permissions in either case.

100546: <p>I have installed Bitcoin v0.18.1 as <code>user1</code>.
Everything is fine, but now I need to let <code>user2</code> access the same run so he can use <code>bitcoin-cli</code> as well.</p>

<p>However, once I log into the VM instance as <code>user2</code> I get this error:</p>

<p><code>error: Could not locate RPC credentials. No authentication cookie could be found, and RPC password is not set.  See -rpcpassword and -stdinrpcpass.  Configuration file: (/home/user2/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf)</code></p>

<p>It does not matter if the users use the same wallet, I just need <code>bitcoin-cli</code> to work for both users and use data from <code>user1</code> (full sync)</p>
 7272: <p><code>bitcoin-cli</code> attempts to read the credentials from <code>$HOME/.bitcoin</code>. Since user2 will have a different home directory, bitcoin-cli will not able to find the credentials.</p>

<p>You can either symlink <code>.bitcoin</code> from user1's home directory to user2's, or alias <code>bitcoin-cli</code> for user2 to use <code>-datadir=user1home/.bitcoin</code>.</p>

<p>You may need to play around with the read permissions in either case.</p>
