The fixture added in #1621 set multiPass to "password". RTL blacklists weak
passwords (PASSWORD_BLACKLIST in consts-enums-functions.ts: 'password',
'changeme', 'moneyprintergobrrr') and forces a change when one is used:
login.component.ts sets defaultPassword: true, and app.component.ts then
redirects to /rtl/settings/auth.
So every login with the documented password was bounced to the change
password screen and never reached the dashboard. The check is session based
rather than first run only, so this happened on every fresh browser session,
not just the first.
Password is now 'rtldev'. .env documents why it must stay off the blacklist.
The setup in docker/ has been unable to start since Feb 2021. The boltz
service added in f817ae39 references BOLTZ_* variables that are not in .env
(so its ports render as ":" and compose rejects the file with "invalid
proto"), a ./boltz build context that has never existed in the repo, and
boltz_data/boltz_shared volumes that are never declared. Because compose
validates the whole project up front, this broke every service: "docker
compose up -d bitcoind", the first command in the README, failed too.
Rather than repair a five-year-old file pinned to bitcoind 0.19.0 and lnd
0.12.0-beta, this replaces it.
What changed:
- bitcoind 30.0 and 3x lnd 0.20.0-beta, using Polar's images. They are
multi-arch, so nothing is built locally and this works on arm64. The old
setup built bitcoind and lnd from local Dockerfiles.
- Three nodes, not one: alice -> bob -> carol. bob forwards, so RTL's
routing and forwarding screens have data. Two nodes leave them empty.
- scripts/seed.sh funds the nodes, opens channels, and makes payments with
fixed amounts. A fresh run reproduces identical state, so screenshots
taken before and after a change differ only by the change. It is
deliberately not idempotent and refuses to run against a seeded network,
since re-running would double-fund it.
- rtl/RTL-Config.regtest.json configures all three nodes. RTL rewrites its
config on startup, so an init container stages a copy into a volume: a
read-only bind mount makes RTL exit with EROFS, and a writable one would
let RTL modify a tracked file. It is not named RTL-Config.json because
.gitignore matches that bare name at any depth.
- bin/ln-cli now takes a node name and passes --lnddir=/home/lnd/.lnd,
because 'docker compose exec' lands as root while lnd's datadir is under
/home/lnd. Both helpers use compose v2.
- README rewritten to match.
Boltz, Core Lightning and Eclair are left out of this pass. Polar publishes
multi-arch clightning and eclair images, so adding them later needs compose
services, config entries and seed adapters, but no image building.
Verified from a clean 'down -v': all nodes sync, channels go active, 5/5
payments route through bob, bob records 5 forwards, and RTL serves the UI
with all three nodes configured. Two independent from-scratch runs produced
identical balances.
The old bitcoind/ and lnd/ build contexts are now unreferenced but left in
place for a follow-up.
