gabey
provides account management via the account
command:<DATADIR>/keystore
. Make sure you backup your keys regularly! See DATADIR backup & restore for more information. If a custom datadir and keystore option are given the keystore option takes preference over the datadir option.UTC--<created_at UTC ISO8601>-<address hex>
. The order of accounts when listing, is lexicographic, but as a consequence of the timespamp format, it is actually order of creationgabey account <command> --help
.--password
flag. The data in the file consists of the raw characters of the password, followed by a single newline.--password
flag:<keyfile>
and creates a new account and prints the address.--password
flag:update
subcommand with the account address or index as parameter. You can specify multiple accounts at once.--unlock
option which takes a comma separated list of accounts (in hex or index) as argument so you can unlock the accounts programmatically for one session. This is useful if you want to use your account from Dapps via RPC. --unlock
will unlock the first account. This is useful when you created your account programmatically, you do not need to know the actual account to unlock it.