Cannot create a new account

Question

I've just installed an EOS node on my Ubuntu VPS, and it seems be working well. Sync speed is pretty fast also. I ran nodeos like:

nodeos --genesis-json eos_data/config/genesis.json --config-dir eos_data/config/ --data-dir eos_data/data/

I've also created a new wallet, two key pairs and imported them to the wallet. Then I've imported the key pair for eosio account as well. So when I execute cleos -u http://127.0.0.1:5801 wallet keys, all 3 public keys are displaying.

[
"EOS6MRyAjQq8ud7hVNYcfnVPJqcVpscN5So8BhtHuGYqET5GDW5CV",
"EOS7YnvWfj************************************************************",
"EOS7uBeu8*************************************************************"
]

Then, I've unlocked the wallet. So I thought that is sufficient to create a new account.

Unfortunately, when I tried the following:

cleos -u http://127.0.0.1:5801 create account eosio NEW_ACCOUNT owner_public_key active_public_key

it displayed an error:

Error 3090003: Provided keys, permissions, and delays do not satisfy declared authorizations
Ensure that you have the related private keys inside your wallet and your wallet is unlocked.
Error Details:
transaction declares authority '{"actor":"eosio","permission":"active"}', but does not have signatures for it.

I am not sure what's wrong and how I can fix this problem.

Do I need to finish synchronization before creating new accounts?

Answer 1

You forgot to indicate the permission after the transaction. You have to add at the end:

-p eosio

So that the full command looks like:

cleos -u http://127.0.0.1:5801 create account eosio NEW_ACCOUNT owner_public_key active_public_key -p eosio

Answer 2

1.From your information, you ran nodeos like:

nodeos --genesis-json eos_data/config/genesis.json --config-dir eos_data/config/ --data-dir eos_data/data/

1.1 this node is not a producer as no -p specified;

1.2 this node have no chain-plugin, so it will not accept you cleos request, and say "Error 3110001: Missing Chain API Plugin";

1.3 the default port is 127.0.0.1:8888.

2. You create account use this command

cleos -u http://127.0.0.1:5801 create account eosio NEW_ACCOUNT owner_public_key active_public_key

so you call other node to create account, not the one you mentioned. You can check the eosio account info by

cleos -u http://127.0.0.1:5801 get account eosio

and see the public_key of eosio, and check whether is in your wallet.

The eosio account key is based on the genesis.json, not the config.ini or --private-key or signature-provider.

Other producers's key is based on that:

• signature-provider
• private-key
• config.ini