Node Security and Backups

what is a seed phrase? where do i access it? your seed phrase allows you to access your funds externally to voltage it similar to a regular bitcoin seed phrase with a few key differences the seed phrase is of the aezeed format this essentially means if you need to recover funds externally to voltage, you should do so by deploying a new lnd lightning node and entering your seed phrase at start up if you do perform an external recovery, it is important that the original node is turned off before you do so and never turned on again if two instances of the same node are running simultaneously, this could lead to corruption to access your seed phrase go to your node dashboard and click backup & export, seed phrase backup, reveal seed phrase see image below this seed phrsae should be stored somewhere safe and not on an online enabled device for best security practices what is a node password? how is it used? when you deploy a lnd node on voltage, you will set a node password when you set your node password you will be given a warning that once your password is set, if lost, it cannot be recovered this is because this password is not stored on the voltage servers and it is used as a decryption password when you access your node dashboard your node password must be entered every time you attempt to do an administrative level function on the node dashboard ui and also every time the node restarts to move the node state from "waiting unlock" to "running " you can turn on auto unlock by following the guide here for convenience if you are using the api, the node password is not needed instead, authentication will be used via the macaroon and api endpoint as outlined here