How to create a steem account via cli_wallet command prompt?

in #steem-help • 7 years ago


I have a question for the Steemian community. I've googled far and wide and could not find any howto on this subject.

This post from @lantto is good to get the basics on starting the cli_wallet, setting the password and unlocking the wallet , see How to use the steem cli wallet

here are the commands that seems to be a good start:
cli_wallet
set_password yourpassword
unlock yourpassword

Here @primus hints that there is a way to create a steem account from the cli wallet as described here in ...4 different ways...

Now those seems to be the command needed to create an account, but the missing parameters make it a guess, the source code barely helps.

get_account – to check the new account name for availability
suggest_brain_key – to generate account access keys (owner, active, posting and memo)
create_account – to register an account with previously generated keys (don’t forget to save them!)

Another post from @timcliff for example talk about a new tool ... create new steem account ... and the need to send steem dollars to that account for it's creation, but there is no good cli wallet how to do that, and I do not know if it is applicable here.

If you have done this before, please comment below and share your knowledge with the community.

I look forward to following you!

#steem #cli-wallet #create-account #howto
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     7 years ago  

    I do the following:

    1. Generate a public/private key pair using suggest_brain_key
    2. Create the account using the pub_key value from the pair
      create_account_with_keys_delegated "youraccount" "0.200 STEEM" "63000.000000 VESTS" "newname" "" "STM8kGEPBMsn3WnstoXsaY5Raw3qKwQoAjfuS73SWdvEJGndsgBNt" "STM8kGEPBMsn3WnstoXsaY5Raw3qKwQoAjfuS73SWdvEJGndsgBNt" "STM8kGEPBMsn3WnstoXsaY5Raw3qKwQoAjfuS73SWdvEJGndsgBNt" "STM8kGEPBMsn3WnstoXsaY5Raw3qKwQoAjfuS73SWdvEJGndsgBNt" true
    3. Give the wif_priv_key value to the owner of the account
    4. Have the owner change the key using the Change Password page on steemit.com.
    5. Make 100% sure that the owner saves and backs up their new key somewhere safe.

    When you use these steps, the new owner must change their password before it can be used to login to steemit.com.

    You can also change the STEEM and VESTS amounts. The amounts I have above are based on the current account creation fee of 0.20 STEEM, and use the minimum STEEM amount, while delegating the rest. If you used 6.000 STEEM, you could do 0.000000 VESTS. Note - the number decimal places must match what is used above.

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     7 years ago  

    Thanks Cliff, that’s exactly what I was looking for.

    It gives me hope that steemit can also replace stackoverflow.

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     7 years ago  

    Thanks for this insightful post mate.. looking forward to see more post like this

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