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jamaljsr / polar

One-click Bitcoin Lightning networks for local app development & testing
https://lightningpolar.com
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Feature Request: include a super macaroon for litd in the GUI #1048

Open ZZiigguurraatt opened 2 days ago

ZZiigguurraatt commented 2 days ago

Would like to see a super macaroon for litd available in the GUI.

We can open a terminal and run

litcli bakesupermacaroon --save_to ~/.lit/regtest/super.macaroon

however, it would be nice to just be in the GUI for quick copy and paste.

Also, all macaroons that are available in the GUI are available under a path on the host like

/home/xxxxxxxxxxx/.polar/networks/1/volumes/litd/dave/lit/regtest/lit.macaroon

which can be used by other test scripts running on the host as soon as the node is setup. Would be nice for the super macaroon to automatically be available this way too.

jamaljsr commented 1 day ago

The Polar UI currently shows the macaroon files that are auto-generated on startup by lnd & litd. Since the super macaroon isn't automatically created by the nodes, Polar would need to make an RPC call to create it. This is certainly doable, but I just wanted to provide a bit of clarity on why this isn't already in Polar today.

ZZiigguurraatt commented 12 hours ago

I didn't think of that, but it makes sense.

Wondering if it would be better to have a config option for litd to auto generate super.macaroon on startup if it doesn't exist instead of doing that in polar? There could be a lot more use cases where you might want this outside of polar too.