Geth account password on command line

Question

geth --password mYp@ssw0rd account new

Using the above code line throws the following error:

Fatal: Failed to read password file: open mYp@ssw0rd: no such file or directory

Is there any way to provide the password directly on the command line using Geth?

Answer 1

You've got the following two ways to create your account from command line:

geth account new --password <(echo $mypassword)

geth account new --password [arg] 

where,

[arg] = the name of a file containing the password and not the password itself.

One more way is to start your network in one window of PowerShell (in windows) and then, in a new PowerShell window, execute the folllowing command:

geth attach

and then use management APIs