Key Management Overview

Sagacli and Key Management
sagacli stores and manages your key pairs. You can either create a new key or import your existing key(s).
These keys may be in any format as long as the format is supported by the Tendermint crypto library. It can be used by light-clients, full nodes, or any other application that needs to sign with a private key.
Keyring
The keyring supports the following backends:
os
Uses the operating system's default credentials store.
file
Uses encrypted file-based keystore within the app's configuration directory. This keyring will request a password each time it is accessed, which may occur multiple times in a single command resulting in repeated password prompts.
kwallet
Uses KDE Wallet Manager as a credentials management application.
pass
Uses the pass command line utility to store and retrieve keys.
test
Stores keys insecurely to disk. It does not prompt for a password to be unlocked and it should be use only for testing purposes.
kwallet and pass backends depend on external tools. Refer to their respective documentation for more information: KWallet https://github.com/KDE/kwallet pass https://www.passwordstore.org/
The pass backend requires GnuPG: https://gnupg.org/
Supported Functions
To view key management functions supported by sagacli, look at the output below.
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$ sagacli keys --help
Usage:
  sagacli keys [command]
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Available Commands:
  add         Add an encrypted private key (either newly generated or recovered), encrypt it, and save to <name> file
  delete      Delete the given keys
  list        List all keys
  rename      Rename an existing key
  show        Retrieve key information by name or address
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Flags:
  -h, --help   help for keys
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Global Flags:
      --chain-id string          The network chain ID
      --controller string        controller grpc url (host:port) (default "localhost:19090")
      --from string              Name of private key used to sign (default "ashish")
      --keyring-backend string   Select keyring's backend (os|file|test) (default "os")
      --ledger                   Use the connected Ledger device for signing tx
  -l, --loglevel string          commands logging level (default "info")
      --node string              <host>:<port> to tendermint rpc interface for remote chain (default "tcp://spc.eks-cluster-1-kukkoo.sagarpc.io:26657")
  -o, --output string            output type <text|json> (default "text")
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Use "sagacli keys [command] --help" for more information about a command.
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Last modified 2mo ago

os	Uses the operating system's default credentials store.
file	Uses encrypted file-based keystore within the app's configuration directory. This keyring will request a password each time it is accessed, which may occur multiple times in a single command resulting in repeated password prompts.
kwallet	Uses KDE Wallet Manager as a credentials management application.
pass	Uses the pass command line utility to store and retrieve keys.
test	Stores keys insecurely to disk. It does not prompt for a password to be unlocked and it should be use only for testing purposes.