For most users, the easiest way to use keosd is to have cleos launch it automatically. Wallet files will be created in the default directory (~/eosio-wallet).
Launching keosd manually
keosd can be launched manually from the terminal by running:
keosdBy default, keosd creates the folder ~/eosio-wallet and populates it with a basic config.ini file. The location of the config file can be specified on the command line using the --config-dir argument. The configuration file contains the HTTP server endpoint for incoming HTTP connections and other parameters for cross-origin resource sharing.
The location of the wallet data folder can be specified on the command line with the --data-dir option.
Auto-locking
By default, keosd is set to lock your wallet after 15 minutes of inactivity. This is configurable in the config.ini by setting the timeout seconds in unlock-timeout. Setting it to 0 will cause keosd to always lock your wallet.
Stopping keosd
The most effective way to stop keosd is to find the keosd process and send a SIGTERM signal to it.
Other options
For a list of all commands known to keosd, simply run it with no arguments:
keosd --helpApplication Options:
Config Options for eosio::http_plugin:
--unix-socket-path arg (=keosd.sock) The filename (relative to data-dir) to
create a unix socket for HTTP RPC; set
blank to disable.
--http-server-address arg The local IP and port to listen for
incoming http connections; leave blank
to disable.
--https-server-address arg The local IP and port to listen for
incoming https connections; leave blank
to disable.
--https-certificate-chain-file arg Filename with the certificate chain to
present on https connections. PEM
format. Required for https.
--https-private-key-file arg Filename with https private key in PEM
format. Required for https
--https-ecdh-curve arg (=secp384r1) Configure https ECDH curve to use:
secp384r1 or prime256v1
--access-control-allow-origin arg Specify the Access-Control-Allow-Origin
to be returned on each request.
--access-control-allow-headers arg Specify the Access-Control-Allow-Header
s to be returned on each request.
--access-control-max-age arg Specify the Access-Control-Max-Age to
be returned on each request.
--access-control-allow-credentials Specify if Access-Control-Allow-Credent
ials: true should be returned on each
request.
--max-body-size arg (=1048576) The maximum body size in bytes allowed
for incoming RPC requests
--http-max-bytes-in-flight-mb arg (=500)
Maximum size in megabytes http_plugin
should use for processing http
requests. 503 error response when
exceeded.
--verbose-http-errors Append the error log to HTTP responses
--http-validate-host arg (=1) If set to false, then any incoming
"Host" header is considered valid
--http-alias arg Additionaly acceptable values for the
"Host" header of incoming HTTP
requests, can be specified multiple
times. Includes http/s_server_address
by default.
--http-threads arg (=2) Number of worker threads in http thread
pool
Config Options for eosio::wallet_plugin:
--wallet-dir arg (=".") The path of the wallet files (absolute
path or relative to application data
dir)
--unlock-timeout arg (=900) Timeout for unlocked wallet in seconds
(default 900 (15 minutes)). Wallets
will automatically lock after specified
number of seconds of inactivity.
Activity is defined as any wallet
command e.g. list-wallets.
--yubihsm-url URL Override default URL of
http://localhost:12345 for connecting
to yubihsm-connector
--yubihsm-authkey key_num Enables YubiHSM support using given
Authkey
Application Config Options:
--plugin arg Plugin(s) to enable, may be specified
multiple times
Application Command Line Options:
-h [ --help ] Print this help message and exit.
-v [ --version ] Print version information.
--print-default-config Print default configuration template
-d [ --data-dir ] arg Directory containing program runtime
data
--config-dir arg Directory containing configuration
files such as config.ini
-c [ --config ] arg (=config.ini) Configuration file name relative to
config-dir
-l [ --logconf ] arg (=logging.json) Logging configuration file name/path
for library users