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I want to run monero-wallet-cli on a separate machine that connects to monerod onion service. To this end, inspired by this tutorial, having created the onion service I configured my bitmonero.conf:

no-igd=1
restricted-rpc=1
rpc-login=USERNAME:PASSWORD

and launched monerod like so: monerod --detach . The daemon works as evidenced by the informational output that I get from executing this from my cient curl --socks5-hostname 127.0.0.1:9150 -u USERNAME:PASSWORD --digest -X POST http://j************************d.onion:18081/json_rpc -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"0","method":"get_info"}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json'.

When I ssh into the machine that hosts monerod I try to shut it down with monerod exit or monerod stop_daemon it does not work, I get:

2024-04-04 12:32:54.642 I Monero 'Fluorine Fermi' (v0.18.1.0-c8214782f)
Error: Daemon did not stop-- rpc_request:

instead of what i normally would get when the daemon is launched without RPC options,

2024-04-04 12:31:27.478 I Monero 'Fluorine Fermi' (v0.18.1.0-c8214782f)
Stop signal sent

Having unsuccessfully tried stopping the service serverside, I then proceeded to stop the daemon by sending a request from the client: curl --socks5-hostname 127.0.0.1:9150 -u USER:PASSWORD http://j************************d.onion:18081/stop_daemon -H 'Content-Type: application/json' and got this output:

<html><head><title>Unauthorized Access</title></head><body><h1>401 Unauthorized</h1></body></html>

What is happening with the m̀onerod? Why cannot I shut it down?

P.S. My monerod is hosted on a Debian based system and is run by root. As I have not started my deamon with --rpc-bind-ip please do not consider it a duplicate of this question.

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Unless otherwise configured, monerod starts with its default options. Note: --rpc-bind-ip is default, see monerod --help My RPC relevant part in monerod.conf:

# RPC open node
public-node=1
rpc-bind-ip=127.0.0.1          # (default localhost 127.0.0.1)
rpc-bind-ipv6-address=[::1]    # (default localhost ::1)
rpc-bind-port=8081             # (default 18081)
rpc-restricted-bind-ip=0.0.0.0         # (default 127.0.0.1)
rpc-restricted-bind-ipv6-address=[::]  # (default ::1)
rpc-restricted-bind-port=18081 # Bind on default port 18081
rpc-use-ipv6=1                 # (default false)
confirm-external-bind=1

Then I can use commands on the localhost like:

monerod --rpc-bind-port=8081 help
monerod --rpc-bind-port=8081 exit
monerod --rpc-bind-port=8081 --rpc-login username:password exit

But you actually start and stop services on Debian via systemd. Example: monerod.service

systemctl start monerod
systemctl status monerod
systemctl stop monerod

And you should never run services as root! Setting up Monero as a system service, start with:

addgroup --system monero
adduser --system --home /var/lib/monero --ingroup monero monero
mkdir /var/run/monero
mkdir /var/log/monero
mkdir /etc/monero
touch /etc/monero/monerod.conf
chown monero:monero /var/run/monero
chown monero:monero /var/log/monero
chown -R monero:monero /etc/monero

& read the rest in Seth's excellent guide Run a Monero Node:

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