How do i know if an account is unlocked in geth

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Is there any API available to check whether an account is locked/unlocked in geth ? If i try to unlock an account that is already in unlocked state, does geth look out for the cached decrypted key , instead of decrypting each time ?

Also what if there are concurrent requests for unlocking of the same account (which is initially locked) ? Can this result in out of Memory error ?

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 30 '17 at 05:05

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At the geth console (invoked by geth attach), run personal.listWallets to see a list of wallets and their statuses:


[{
    accounts: [{
        address: "0xae9c2ed2209d2228c131cc99569233a5d506770b",
        url: "..."
    }],
    status: "Unlocked",
    url: "..."
}]

You're interested in the wallet status field which can be either "Locked" or "Unlocked".

answered Nov 30 '17 at 05:05

aupiff

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web3.personal does not provide listWallets under nodejs @aupiff – alper Mar 13 '18 at 22:20
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I was talking about the geth console in my response. geth console commands are not identical to those defined in the web3.js library. – aupiff Apr 02 '18 at 20:24

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 28 '20 at 10:08

web3.geth.personal.list_wallets().

Delegates to personal_listWallets RPC Method

Returns the list of wallets managed by Geth.

>>> web3.geth.personal.list_wallets()
[{
    accounts: [{
        address: "0x44f705f3c31017856777f2931c2f09f240dd800b",
        url: "keystore:///path/to/keystore/UTC--2020-03-30T23-24-43.133883000Z--44f705f3c31017856777f2931c2f09f240dd800b"
    }],
    status: "Unlocked",
    url: "keystore:///path/to/keystore/UTC--2020-03-30T23-24-43.133883000Z--44f705f3c31017856777f2931c2f09f240dd800b"
}]

Kim Ilyong · Answer 3 · 2020-09-22T05:41:09.737

If you want to get the same result from inside node.js or the browser use this. Im using the personal_listWallets JSON-RPC method in a waitable promise'ify function. Just call listWallets().then();

async function listWallets() {
    try {
        const result = await sendRPC_personal_listWallets();
        return result;
    } catch (e) {
        return e;
    }
}
function sendRPC_personal_listWallets() {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) =&gt; {

    web3.currentProvider.send({ method: &quot;personal_listWallets&quot;, params: [], jsonrpc: &quot;2.0&quot;, id: new Date().getTime() },
        function (error, result) { if (error) { reject(error); } else { resolve(result); } });
}
);

}
let wallets;
listWallets().then((r) => { console.log("ID:", r.id); wallets = r.result; console.log("Accounts:", wallets); });

How do i know if an account is unlocked in geth

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