please do NOT set default worker name as hostname!

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T-Rex NVIDIA GPU miner with web control monitoring page

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please do NOT set default worker name as hostname! #110

Open aleqx opened 3 years ago

aleqx commented 3 years ago

Ubuntu 16.04, Nvidia 450.57, Cuda 10.2. t-rex 0.19.x

I am not setting worker, but t-rex is sending a worker name to the pool via json-rpc which is the machine hostname ... this is a security and privacy issue! Please stop doing that. Edit: I'm not aware of any pool that actually requires a worker name, so this should not be set at all by default. If it must be set for whatever obscure reason, then set it to a random string, and not the hostname.

UselessGuru commented 3 years ago

This is well documented here: https://github.com/trexminer/T-Rex/releases/tag/0.18.9

(ethash, kawpow, progpow) Set worker name to %hostname% if not specified

Some pools require a workername (Why ever ???) Specify '-w [workername]' and your problem is solved.

aleqx commented 3 years ago

@UselessGuru that's not the point. If it must be set, then set it to a random string