Create an Account
In a Wire Blockchain, creating a new account is a priviledge reserved for existing account holders, who have sufficient system resources to submit a transaction and who have control over sysio account, which is typically the case on a local blockchain.
Prerequisites
- Install the currently supported version of
clio
| The clio tool is bundled with the Wire software. Installing Wire Core will also install the clio tool.
- Accounts and Permissions
- Understand public and private key
- Created an Owner and an Active key pair. See how to create a key pairs here
- Import a private key to the wallet which can authorize on behalf of a creator account
The install process sets 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.
Steps
Command
clio create account [creator account name] [new account name][OwnerKey] [ActiveKey]
Where:
[creator account name] = name of the existing account that authorizes the creation of a new account
[new account name] = The name of the new account account adhering to the account naming conventions
[OwnerKey] = The owner permissions linked to the ownership of the account
[ActiveKey] = The active permissions linked with the creator account
| ActiveKey is optional but recommended.
| To create a new account in the Wire blockchain, an existing account, also referred to as a creator account, is required to authorize the creation of a new account. For a newly created Wire blockchain, the default system account used to create a new account is sysio.
Example Output
clio create account sysio bob SYS87TQktA5RVse2EguhztfQVEh6XXxBmgkU8b4Y5YnGvtYAoLGNN
executed transaction: 4d65a274de9f809f9926b74c3c54aadc0947020bcfb6dd96043d1bcd9c46604c 200 bytes 166 us
# sysio <= sysio::newaccount {"creator":"sysio","name":"bob","owner":{"threshold":1,"keys":[{"key":"SYS87TQktA5RVse2EguhztfQVEh6X...
warning: transaction executed locally, but may not be confirmed by the network yet ]