I run lnd and bitcoind under their own users, but on the same physical machine. This means lnd has trouble accessing the bitcoind .cookie, so I'm trying to configure lnd to use RPC.
When I use the following options in my lnd.conf as described in the lnd documentation:
bitcoind.rpchost=127.0.0.1:8332
bitcoind.rpcuser=joeblow
bitcoind.rpcpass=superSecretPasswordByRPAUTH.py
bitcoind.zmqpubrawblock=127.0.0.1:28332
bitcoind.zmqpubrawtx=127.0.0.1:28333
lnd errors out with the following error:
lnd.conf:16: unknown option: bitcoind.rpchost
lnd runs fine if I specify the above options using the command line like this:
lnd -bitcoind.rpchost=127.0.0.1:8332 -bitcoind.rpcuser=joeblow ... etc
This means typing in the RPC password in the command-line and command-line options can be seen by users running 'top' or task manager. This exposes RPC password to users other than 'lnd.' Having RPC password in lnd.conf is moderately more secure because the file can be locked down with chmod.