error: Could not locate RPC credentials. No authentication cookie could be found, and no rpcpassword is set in the configuration file
This is usually because the .cookie file cannot be read by the user you are running Litecoin or Bitcoin client/daemon as.
You can adjust the permissions of the file so that the user or group they are apart of has read permissions.
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