How to change active key for an account?

Question

My active and owner keys are the same. I want to change active key to be different from owner, for safety.

What command should I use?

Is it possible to set the account keys from within a smart contract action rather than calling cleos? — Max, Commented Aug 1, 2018 at 11:52
is there an easier way to do this for someone who is not technical? — Markos Solomou, Commented Aug 26, 2018 at 5:45

ottomagic · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-25 12:42:05Z

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Looks like I found the answer I was looking for.

cleos set account permission accountname active '{"threshold": 1, "keys": [{"key": "NEW_ACTIVE_PUBLIC_KEY", "weight": 1}]}' owner

When having weight 1 you can simply use this alias instead:

cleos set account permission accountname active NEW_ACTIVE_PUBLIC_KEY owner -p accountname@owner

After, you can check that it worked with:

cleos get account accountname

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