user97689: I mine using username and password at the moment but as bitcoin core is changing over to rpccookiefile. My question is, if i use rpccookiefile how do i point my antminers to my local bitcoind 'pool' as the fields on the antminers require username and password ?

user208: The RPC cookie file is only for local authentication of bitcoin-cli.
For external applications, you should use rpcauth= lines in bitcoin.conf. A tool for generating these lines given a username and password is in the repository.

97689: <p>I mine using username and password at the moment but as bitcoin core is changing over to rpccookiefile. My question is, if i use rpccookiefile how do i point my antminers to my local bitcoind 'pool' as the fields on the antminers require username and password ?</p>
 208: <p>The RPC cookie file is only for local authentication of <code>bitcoin-cli</code>.</p>

<p>For external applications, you should use <code>rpcauth=</code> lines in bitcoin.conf. A tool for generating these lines given a username and password is in the repository.</p>
