Account Operations

This section describes account operations.

List Accounts

You can list all the accounts registered in your local storage:

lego accounts list

Output:

Found the following accounts:
[email protected]
├── Email: 
├── Server: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
├── Key Type: EC256
└── Path: /path/to/.lego/accounts/acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/[email protected]/account.json

...

Register

You can register a new account by using the following command:

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lego accounts register --account-id='myaccount'

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lego accounts register --account-id='myaccount' \
    --server https://example.com/ca \
    --eab \
    --eab.kid xxx \
    --eab.hmac yyy

{{% /tab %}} {{< /tabs >}}

Key Rollover

You can change the account private key (a key rollover) by using the following command:

lego accounts keyrollover --account-id='myaccount'

Account Recovery

You can recover/import an account, to do that, you need the private key of the account.

lego account recover --account-id='myaccount' --private-key /path/to/private-key.pem

The account will be imported and added to .lego/accounts/.