How to unlock account from web3?

Question

How to enable ipcapi from geth javascript console?

http://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/4157/how-to-unlock-the-account-with-geth/4159#4159 — Lee, Feb 01 '17 at 11:49
http://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/5792/how-can-i-connect-to-geth-by-ipc-on-nodejs — Lee, Feb 01 '17 at 11:56

Badr Bellaj · Answer 1 · 2017-02-12T21:28:34.537

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Try to use :
geth --rpc --rpcaddr="0.0.0.0" --rpccorsdomain="*" --rpcapi="db,eth,net,web3,personal,web3" --ipcapi "admin,eth,debug,personal,web3"

if it doesn't work drop the ipcapi part.

then unlock the account using the command : web3.personal.unlockAccount("account","password");

edited Feb 12 '17 at 21:28

answered Feb 01 '17 at 12:09

Badr Bellaj

when i am running --ipcapi "admin,eth,debug,personal,web3" command it is giving me fatal Error- resource not available – Sagar Feb 03 '17 at 06:48
I am not able to figure out how to start geth with rpc and ipc API.
can you please help me resolve this.
– Sagar Feb 03 '17 at 07:01
Howe did you start it? – Badr Bellaj Feb 03 '17 at 09:30
i am connecting using Putty – Sagar Feb 03 '17 at 11:21
I meant what was the command you've run? geth ... – Badr Bellaj Feb 03 '17 at 12:31
read official doc : https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/JavaScript-Console – Badr Bellaj Feb 03 '17 at 23:25
geth --ipcapi "admin,eth,debug,personal,web3" this command – Sagar Feb 07 '17 at 13:21
check my answer i ve made some modif – Badr Bellaj Feb 12 '17 at 21:28
You may create a unsignes transaction and use Metamask to sign it. – digitaldonkey Mar 12 '17 at 11:27

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