How are all accounts listed and how is the first account created?

Question

If I want to list all accounts, how is that done? (not for a key but to see what accounts actually exist).

I know

cleos get accounts

can be used for a particular key. But I am trying to find out on my new install what accounts exist. How do I create the first account I guess is the problem? Because the

cleos create account

needs an account to start with.

Answer 1

I don't think there's any built-in command to list all existing accounts. On mainnet, EOSNewYork maintains a daily updated snapshot of all existing accounts here, but that is done by querying the ledger periodically.

The first account on a single node testnet is the one you pass to nodeos with the flag --producer-name e.g. $ nodeos --producer-name eosio --enable-stale-production has the account eosio producing blocks by default. I don't believe there's any automatic way to keep track of the accounts created afterwards--you'd have to inspect the entire ledger.

In your example, you'd use

$ cleos create account eosio <new-account-name> <pub-key-for-owner> <pub-key-for-active>

Answer 2

This was answered already by confused00 but to augment his answer for anyone else -

# (DEPRECATED - Use signature-provider instead) Tuple of [public key, WIF private key] (may specify multiple times) (eosio::produ
cer_plugin)
# private-key =

# Key=Value pairs in the form =
# Where:
#           is a string form of a vaild EOSIO public key
#
#        is a string in the form :
#
#        is KEY, or KEOSD
#
#    KEY:         is a string form of a valid EOSIO private key which maps to the provided public key
#
#    KEOSD:       is the URL where keosd is available and the approptiate wallet(s) are unlocked (eosio::producer_plugin)
signature-provider = EOS6MRyAjQq8ud7hVNYcfnVPJqcVpscN5So8BhtHuGYqET5GDW5CV=KEY:5KQwrPbwdL6PhXujxW37FSSQZ1JiwsST4cqQzDeyXtP79zkvFD
3

You need the keys specified under signature-provider in config.ini then use then as he stated in his answer.