Parity-ethereum: Should password file be read from config for parity account new?

[stone212]

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• Parity Ethereum version: 2.1.6
• Operating system: Linux
• Installation: one-line installer
• Fully synchronized:yes
• Network: private
• Restarted: yes

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parity account new produces a new account. It used to ask me for a password. Did I miss an important meeting? The release notes here don't say anything about this change: https://github.com/paritytech/parity-ethereum/releases?all

[joshua-mir]

This behavior hasn't changed, you're correct, however there is an existing behavior where if a password file is specified, parity account new will use a password from the password file instead of asking you for the password, which is the only scenario I'd imagine wouldn't prompt you for a password. The password file can be provided at the cli, or may also be one you provided in your config - this is likely what you are experiencing.

[stone212]

@joshua-mir This makes sense. I am using a .toml with an unlocked account.

So every account I make with Parity will use this same password from the toml? Do you know where I can find the options to parity account new so I can add a password manually?

[joshua-mir]

https://wiki.parity.io/CLI-Sub-commands#account-new

You don't (might not?) get this issue if you specify --chain foundation because that will read our default foundation config instead of your personal config.toml. I've noticed that the config file behavior doesn't appear to be documented 😅

[5chdn]

❯ parity --no-config account new
Please note that password is NOT RECOVERABLE.
Type password: 

;)