Configuration File

All three programs get settings from dash.conf in the DashCore application directory:

Windows: %APPDATA%\DashCore\
OSX: $HOME/Library/Application Support/DashCore/
Linux: $HOME/.dashcore/

To use dashd and dash-cli, you will need to add a RPC password to your dash.conf file. Both programs will read from the same file if both run on the same system as the same user, so any long random password will work:

rpcpassword=change_this_to_a_long_random_password

You should also make the dash.conf file only readable to its owner. On Linux, Mac OSX, and other Unix-like systems, this can be accomplished by running the following command in the Dash Core application directory:

chmod 0600 dash.conf

For development, it's safer and cheaper to use Dash's test network (testnet), regression test mode (regtest), or a developer network (devnet) described below.

Questions about Dash use are best sent to the Dash forum and Discord channels.

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