Using initprivkey

Question

Hi

I have a node (say, node1) running on a specific network and rpc port (7333, 7332). I generated a new address and granted it connect, send, receive permissions.

Then, did "dumpprivkey my_address" to get the corresponding private key.

I tried to connect to this chain by starting another node (say, node2) on a different network and rpc ports, and this was my command

"multichaind testchain1@10.0.2.15:7333 -datadir=~/.multichain-other-5 -port=10333 -rpcport=10332 initprivkey=V8odv8EBR6F91qGfNZdsHiWXqmiZLJH1TGWmQyHGbtQSyWH1u6E21twv -daemon

The input to initprivkey was exactly the same as the output of dumpprivkey on node1. Still this second node generates a new random address. Am I sending the argument incorrectly or doing something else wrongly?

Answer 1

First you need to be running MultiChain 1.0 beta 2 or later for this option to work.

Second, it seems you're missing the hyphen before initprivkey on the command line.

Comments

Cant believe I missed that detail! Thanks! :)

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No problem, glad it's resolved.