Alby Hub Tip: Unlock after reboot \ stacker news ~bitcoin

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801 sats \ 13 comments \ @kepford 17 May bitcoin

Been using and testing Alby Hub and I wasn't aware of a security feature it has which makes sense now. I updated it and rebooted my node today and suddenly lost access to my NWC wallets. Payments were failing on SN connections. My node was up. Channels were working. I have uptime monitoring on my ISP connection so I knew that wasn't an issue.

So, I logged into my Alby Hub interface and suddenly the NWC wallets all started working. After looking through the settings I see that it is possible to avoid this issue if you go to settings/auto-unlock and set it up. But this is a security tradeoff I don't wanna make.

If you're curious go to your settings and read about it.

Just thought I'd share in case others stackers were not aware of this.

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134 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jer 18 May

Same when you backup Start9

113 sats \ 6 replies \ @siggy47 18 May

Thanks. This drives me nuts.

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @Alby 18 May

What drives you nuts? Can we help?

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 19 May

IIt drives me nuts when my node is up and my SN wallet NWC connection breaks because Alby logged off. It's not a criticism of Alby. It's just good to know the auto unlock is available.

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @Alby 20 May

But does the auto-unlock work for you?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 20 May

I haven't tried it yet.

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford OP 19 May

For me I'd rather deal with it than have another attack point on my node.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 20 May

You're probably right

65 sats \ 1 reply \ @nichro 18 May

Good to know.

iirc when running the update shell script in terminal it does tell you to "please unlock alby now", but I wasn't aware it was that important to do it ASAP

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford OP 18 May

I missed it if it was displayed. I bet it was.

39 sats \ 0 replies \ @moptosh 18 May

Thanks for sharing

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @metadavid 18 May

Helpful — went to double check this just now!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @urxkunal 18 May outlawed

stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.