Create a Wallet

Prerequisites

Make sure you meet the following requirements:

• Familiarize with the clio wallet create command and its parameters.
• Familiarize with the other clio wallet commands.
• Install the currently supported version of clio.

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| The clio tool and kiod are bundled with the Wire software. Installing Wire core will install the clio and kiod command line tools.

• Understand what an account is and its role in the blockchain.
• Understand Accounts and Permissions in the protocol documents.
• Understand what a public and private key pair is.

REMINDER

The install process has already set up the wallet for the root user. To interact with clio, ensure you are on the root user. Run sudo su - to switch to the root user.

Command

To create default or a named wallet and save the wallet password to a file, you can run:

clio wallet create [-n named_wallet] -f <file_to_save_pwd>

Create a default wallet

Create a default wallet and save the password to the file default_wallet.pwd:

Example Output

clio wallet create -f default_wallet.pwd

Creating wallet: default
Save password to use in the future to unlock this wallet.
Without password imported keys will not be retrievable.
saving password to default_wallet.pwd

Create a named wallet

• Create a named wallet my_wallet and save the password to the file my_wallet.pwd:

Example Output

clio wallet create -n my_wallet -f my_wallet.pwd

Creating wallet: my_wallet
Save password to use in the future to unlock this wallet.
Without password imported keys will not be retrievable.
saving password to my_wallet.pwd