I followed the instructions and have a node running. I have Algos in a wallet on my iphone that I’d like to “store” on the node instead of leaving them on the iphone. It looks like algokey import is what I need to do, but I wanted to make sure before moving them. Here are my assumptions: If I …

You probably want to use goal to import the key as you will need to use goal to take the account online. https://developer.algorand.org/docs/goal-account#goal-account-import In this sense you are not really moving anything you will just have your account information in two places and you can take …

The fact that I’m not really moving anything confirms what I thought, so that helps. I want to avoid creating a new account, since the account on my phone is registered for the super rewards, so if I transfer the funds out of it I will be disqualified. Thanks for the response.

I am confused about the goal account import description. From the description, “the imported account will be listed alongside your wallet-generated accounts, but will not be tied to your wallet.” With no wallets in my node currently, if I just import the mnemonic from the wallet on my phone, this …

Take a look at this page, specifically wallets and accounts https://developer.algorand.org/docs/accounts-wallets-and-keys Each node function like a wallet manager with containing one or more wallets containing one or more accounts. The accounts can be generated with the wallet or imported . (like …

I think I understand. I was able to import the account into a wallet on the node. I’m trying to take it online, but goal account listpartkeys displays this error Error processing command: open /var/lib/algorand/mainnet-v1.0: permission denied

What OS are you running on? What install instructions did you use?

Is there any chance you attempted to previously start the algod as root ? (either directly or by calling “sudo goal…” )

I followed the ubuntu instructions but its on debian. The user for the algod daemon is ‘algorand’ Im logged in as user ‘phil’

[image] lewispm: goal account listpartkeys I’m not sure if this would help, but does sudo -u algorand goal account listpartkeys work ?

Ill try it. Im trying to understand the process. The user on the node ‘phil’ isn’t running the daemon ‘algod’ so i cant generate a participation key with user ‘phil’? I was, however, able to import my account under user ‘phil’. As far as the permissions on the node that store my algos , user ‘ph…

Algokey import mnemonic

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tsachi September 5, 2019, 2:22pm 10

I’m not sure if this would help, but does

sudo -u algorand goal account listpartkeys

work ?

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