Not able to create new account in geth for private ethereum network

Question

I am not able to create new account in geth. Please help me solve this.

geth account new --datadir /home/blockchain/Downloads/privatechain/data

INFO [12-05|14:47:50.445] Maximum peer count                       ETH=25 LES=0 total=25

Your new account is locked with a password. Please give a password. Do not forget this password.

Passphrase:

Repeat passphrase:

Fatal: Failed to create account: mkdir /home/blockchain: permission denied

Comments

Hello, have you solved it?

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Did you run the command as root?

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yes I tried and the same problem. I was trying to do that on Ubuntu 18.04 and also OS Mint and problem is exactly the same.

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Make sure you don't have another directory with the same name in the path. You cannot create a directory with same names in a single location.

Answer 1

Looks like the account you are trying to run this command from does not has permissions. Tyr running it as root user:

sudo geth account new --datadir /home/blockchain/Downloads/privatechain/data

Answer 2

try this command

sudo geth --datadir ./ account new

to create node 0.The error is probably because you are not using it as the root user

Comments

Using the root user it has error too, strange.

Answer 3

Please before trying other solution, try to run your command in root user mode. In Linux you may jump to root user mode using $sudo su

Answer 4

Please be sure where you install the geth, please try to run your command there and give datadir correctly otherwise it will show permission denied. For my case, I faced same problem of you and finally it is solved.