user138478: While trying to connect to my full node, I accidentally entered my public ip address in the rpcconnect field of bitcoin.conf. Should I be worried that my  password is now out there and anyone can connect to my node via rpc? As a side note, the connection would not be successfull because I specify rpcallowip to only connect with local addresses.
rpcuser=user
rpcpassword=password
rpcconnect=public_ip


user48884: The credentials for the RPC interface are sent in cleartext, so anyone who was able to observe the packets containing that information would now know the username and password for the RPC interface of your node, as well as its IP address.

138478: <p>While trying to connect to my full node, I accidentally entered my public ip address in the rpcconnect field of bitcoin.conf. Should I be worried that my  password is now out there and anyone can connect to my node via rpc? As a side note, the connection would not be successfull because I specify <code>rpcallowip</code> to only connect with local addresses.</p>
<pre><code>rpcuser=user
rpcpassword=password
rpcconnect=public_ip
</code></pre>
 48884: <p>The credentials for the RPC interface are sent in cleartext, so anyone who was able to observe the packets containing that information would now know the username and password for the RPC interface of your node, as well as its IP address.</p>
