How To Create A Wallet - Eos

Goal

Create a wallet using keosd.

Before you begin

Make sure you meet the following requirements:

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

[[info | Note]] | cleos is bundled with the EOSIO software. Installing EOSIO will also install cleos.

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.

Steps

Perform the step below:

Create a default or named wallet and save the wallet password to a file:

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

Where file_to_save_pwd is the name of the file to write the wallet password to and named_wallet is an optional parameter to assign a name to the wallet.

Some examples are provided below:

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

Example Output

cleos wallet create -f default_wallet.pwd

console

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 my_wallet and save the password to the file my_wallet.pwd:

Example Output

cleos wallet create -n my_wallet -f my_wallet.pwd

console

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