Being asked for password to send from etherbase account on mist. Never made password

[Bitbobb]

Node type: geth/eth
OS: windows
Network type: main
Mist version: 0.6.2

Same as issue #161 which from my read seems to have been improperly closed since the respondant misunderstood the complainants merit of his claim. I am having the same problem that the man in issue 161 is having. His issue and another person was never resolved. I loaded mist. I was recomended to use 6.2 by dev untill the more stable release comes out after 7.3 or 7.4 or whatever since those were having problems. Anyway, I took many days of syning then bought some eth then tried to transfer 1 eth to the new jaxx wallet and it asked for a password. I NEVER MADE A PASSWORD for the main etherbase account. I do not have any other eth account and so now I cannot get the almost 6 rth out of mist. Please help.

[Bitbobb]

using geth 1.3.6
sorry meant to include that. I was never asked for a password for anything on mist and it took my eth now asks for password to send eth. What is up with this. This is a big problem folks!

[luclu]

@Bitbobb did you ever see this onboarding screen?

This will popup and ask you for a password if there was no json-file in the %APPDATA%\Ethereum\keystore folder found. Unless you used geth-standalone issuing personal.newAccount this is most unlikely.

Also have a look at #161 were I answered you some minutes ago.

[eisgold]

Did you copy/paste the files from c:\ethereum, put it to a second computer and just run it ? In this case a new adress will be auto generated without user interaction and unknown password. Money send to this adress will be trapped.

[Bitbobb]

luclu, yes I did see that screen. And I have only one option for a possible password that I found since I posted this. And now when I entered this possible password the error message changed from wrong passoword to "couldn't connect to node, did it crash in the background?" Then after entering a ton of other possible passwords I kept getting wrong password for all of them. Then I went back to possible password and it now says wrong password for this entry as well. Something is deffinately going on. And luclu, I checked the link you provided in issue 161 and the link is dead. I think I found the real link elswhere and tried to enter my keystore file there and was asked for a password on it. Then when I entered the possible password it said not enough memory. Please advise.
I will look at the rest of your suggestions and the secret3 guide looks promising.
If I did in fact find the actual password and it still does not work I must have this bug that has been mentioned yes?

eisgold,  no I did not import and run anything on a second computer by copy and paste

[Bitbobb]

0x9c20b60d6272d4D96c07B01052Ba6c662e14B125
is my jaxx wallet for eth

[luclu]

Please update to version 0.7.5 and give me a ping-back on the outcome.

[sparda2]

Hi there I am having the same issue. I downloaded version 0.7.5, chose the option 'Start using Ethereum' and then setup the password I always use. Now I am trying to create a contract and it's saying the password is wrong. Is there any way to change the password or start again without loosing what i converted from bitcoins to ether while setting up my mist wallet? Sorry im pretty new with this.

After a couple of tries i got an error saying: method send transation not allowed.
Would appreciate any help!
Thanks a lot in advance.

[luclu]

@sparda2 make sure to have funds in your etherbase account when you evoke or interact with contracts.

[sparda2]

Hi @luclu, In theory I converted 10 Ether during the setup of my mist wallet and the transaction was completed using that popup window from ShapeShift that is opened with the wallet. However my balance in the mist wallet is still 0. Why is this? does it take some time to actually be reflected in my wallet? Thanks

[sparda2]

This is what my wallet looks like:

[luclu]

Judging from the network stats on top - there seems to be a problem connecting to your geth node.
Also sendTransaction() is depreciated in version 0.7.5.

There seems to be some weirdness on your side. Do you run any external instance of geth you connect to? Also are you sure this is 0.7.5?

You can use a blockexplorer like etherscan.io to check your wallets balance in the meantime.

[sparda2]

And this is the shifty window i got.. Sorry for not putting everything into one post.

And this is where i get the wrong password error:

What should i do?

[sparda2]

Not using any external instances of geth. and yup. 0.7.5

[luclu]

@hiddentao could you have a lookt at this?
Instance of eth_sendTransaction: #808 (comment)
Searching the code I found: ipcProviderBackend.js#L313
and this old doc-string: eth_sendTransaction.js#L11

[sparda2]

I don't even want to close the wallet because i might not be able to log back in! Im new using this wallet so im not sure how it works. If i close it, will i be able to recover my password/account again if the password is still wrong?
Also, is it supposed to show those 10 ether on my main account immediately after converted from btc? or they usually take some extra time to show?
Thanks in advance

[sparda2]

hold on... ive just tried again with no password and it's creating the contract... this feels a bit dodgy.

[hiddentao]

@frozeman Looks like eth_sendTransaction is being rejected here because it's part of a batch request. Can we change that to allow it go through? Can we not do the popup window asking for a password for it?

[Bitbobb]

I will let you know once I have 7.5. installed. Everything is working fine for me now. Thank you! :)

[sparda2]

Hi everyone, thanks for your replies. How about my 10 Ether? Where have they gone to? Is there any way I can revert the transaction and get them back to my blockchain btc account?

[Bitbobb]

Is your mist wallet synced? It took me several days to get this done. I had to use --fast
I ask because it looks like your screenshot shows no peers or blocks have been connected to or processed yet. You would know if this happened because it will tell you the percentage of blocks that have been processed like a progress window. Once you have processed all the blocks up to when you did your transaction then your wallet should show your new balance of 10 ETH.
And no I do not think there is a way to reverse a transaction once it has been recorded on the blockchain.

[sparda2]

Probably not. Do you guys know where to check the sync progress? I am using version 0.7.5 for mac.
Also is it ok if i force the geth --fast while i have my mist window still open? I don't want to close it before i have got the ethers cleared in my account just in case i entered a wrong password and then when i try to reopen it, it doesn't work.

[Bitbobb]

If you sent eth coin to your wallet address it should show up when your wallet syncs properly. You can verify this by looking at the block chain with a block explorer. To do this you will need to find the block explorer website for ether coins then type in your wallet address and do a search for that address. You will be able to see some results. If you see the 10 ether coins went to that address then you will be okay to open and close your wallet program. Just make sure you do not delete your file folder that contains the wallet specifically the uutu file i believe in keystore folder.
As for why you are not getting connected to any peers is something I cannot help with since mine just connected automatically. Were you asked to allow the program to access the internet? perhaps you need to check fire wall?
You might need to have others on this thread help you because I am an end user and my comments may not be correct. I am just sharing what worked for me.

[sparda2]

That's cool.. I think i know now why it wouldn't sync. I tried doing the geth --fast sync and got an error because apparently my time was 1 min and a couple of seconds out of sync compared with internet servers. I checked my time settings and even though i had the option checked to automatically set the time from the internet, when i selected a different server it did update it and there was a difference of about a minute. After that I fired the geth --fast command again and it's now syncing. Will check what you said about my ethers in the block explorer and let you know.
Thanks a lot.

[Bitbobb]

Glad you are making progress.. let us know how you make out

[sparda2]

Sweet I just checked the block page and it says i have the 10 ether in my wallet :) Sorry another question. How big is the file(s) i need to download? I only had 6gb free and the operation was aborted because i ran out of space.

[Bitbobb]

Sorry I do not know this answer. Maybe @luclu can help you. I used several gb so more than 6 gb for sure. I wonder if this can be done on a flash drive. In other words can we put mist on a thumb drive and run it from there? I would rather do that than loose my computer space on my laptop. What would be the down side to this? Thanks

[sparda2]

Oh don't worry. It's all synced now and I can see my balance already... only one thing... I transferred 10 Ether but now i have 9.96 Ether. is there a fee for using the wallet or something?

[Bitbobb]

Sorry I don't know. It should show you a breakdown before you send where the fees are, etc. But yeah probably some kind of transfer fee or miners fee, fuel, gas, ???

[Aquilae32]

@sparda2 As far as I can see on my computer the database for the main network uses 6.87 Gb and for Testnet 3.04 Gb. I know nothing about using a thumb drive. I'm a new user.

[luclu]

Please make sure to update to 0.8.1 as the error messages were broken in earlier versions and always fell back to the - often misleading - "wrong password" alert - regardless of the real error (#664).

[stevenzenith]

I continue to have a similar problem. In my case I sent the ether from coinbase after the hard fork and after the conversion by them. Now I cannot access those coins that arrived here in the Ethereum wallet.

[Bitbobb]

here is a message from 7-19-2016 I tried to recreate this issue. This is the result of my cursory code analysis: #982 <#982>. As I as well as the other devs who created this code were not able recreate this issue I will close this for now - until this can be reproducibly recreated. Additionally we fixed an issue were *any error message* defaulted to "wrong password" - regardless of the real error - which include: ErrInvalidSender = errors.New("Invalid sender") ErrNonce = errors.New("Nonce too low") ErrCheap = errors.New("Gas price too low for acceptance") ErrBalance = errors.New("Insufficient balance") ErrNonExistentAccount = errors.New("Account does not exist or account balance too low") ErrInsufficientFunds = errors.New("Insufficient funds for gas * price + value") ErrIntrinsicGas = errors.New("Intrinsic gas too low") ErrGasLimit = errors.New("Exceeds block gas limit") ErrNegativeValue = errors.New("Negative value") This has been fixed <#959> in version 0.8.1 - make sure to update to see the "real error" message. Please have a look at #669 <#669> should you still encounter problems to unlock your wallet.

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On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 12:06 PM, Steven Ericsson-Zenith < ***@***.***> wrote: I continue to have a similar problem. In my case I sent the ether from coinbase after the hard fork and after the conversion by them. Now I cannot access those coins that arrived here in the Ethereum wallet. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#808 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AS-tOXgekkmJ4ANGH4WymcCMVkdNRAaXks5sKRGfgaJpZM4I0EJZ> .

[ingo1970]

I'm on version 0.8.9 and cant access one of my accounts. My main account isn't a problem. Its one of the additional accounts. Its asking for a password and the one I created for the main account isn't working. I haven't created any other passwords so very frustrating. It just says version not supported: 2

[ingo1970]

I can send funds from main account. I should be able to at least send funds to main account. So frustrating.

[ingo1970]

using mac

[Bitbobb]

For the second account there may be two places where the password can be added. I had luck when I found the second place in the send window. I too did not think I had any password. but I did. Once I found the password and entered it in the second place on the send window it worked. Please forgive I am working off memory and I do not remember the version wallet. But it was an early one. Many people stated that when they created the ether base wallet that they did not remember making a password. so maybe you wrote down one in another location. Please check, that is what saved me. Also you might try common passwords to get it unlocked. Trust me I did not think I had a password either. But I did. You can post a screen shot of what you are getting? It seems to be that "version 2 not supported is not the same as password not found, etc. Maybe your problem is different that you are having. hmmm.. I can re post the rest of the older messages in this thread if it helps. Approx. 15 of them show as being deleted. I will do this shortly. 17Bby7eLU563HaNVHm7V7GspVzUn7Sguw7

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On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 1:45 AM, ingo1970 ***@***.***> wrote: I'm on version 0.8.9 and cant access one of my accounts. My main account isn't a problem. Its one of the additional accounts. Its asking for a password and the one I created for the main account isn't working. I haven't created any other passwords so very frustrating. It just says version not supported: 2 — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#808 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AS-tObodEHJ-rXQDU5tKVaam3dcwhjuGks5sKdGQgaJpZM4I0EJZ> .

[Bitbobb]

Re: [ethereum/mist] Being asked for password to send from etherbase account on mist. Never made password (#808) 24 messages Luca Zeug <notifications@github.com> Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 1:04 PM Reply-To: ethereum/mist To: ethereum/mist <mist@noreply.github.com> Please make sure to update to 0.8.1 as the error messages were broken in earlier versions and always fell back to the - often misleading - "wrong password" alert - regardless of the real error (#664). — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread. To: ethereum/mist <reply.github.com> Ok Thanks! [Quoted text hidden] Luca Zeug <notifications@github.com> Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 7:45 AM Reply-To: ethereum/mist <reply.github.com> To: ethereum/mist <mist@noreply.github.com> Closed #808. [Quoted text hidden] Luca Zeug <notifications@github.com> Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 7:45 AM Reply-To: ethereum/mist <reply.github.com> To: ethereum/mist <mist@noreply.github.com> I tried to recreate this issue. This is the result of my cursory code analysis: #982. As I as well as the other devs who created this code were not able recreate this issue I will close this for now - until this can be reproducibly recreated. Additionally we fixed an issue were any error message defaulted to "wrong password" - regardless of the real error - which include: ErrInvalidSender = errors.New("Invalid sender") ErrNonce = errors.New("Nonce too low") ErrCheap = errors.New("Gas price too low for acceptance") ErrBalance = errors.New("Insufficient balance") ErrNonExistentAccount = errors.New("Account does not exist or account balance too low") ErrInsufficientFunds = errors.New("Insufficient funds for gas * price + value") ErrIntrinsicGas = errors.New("Intrinsic gas too low") ErrGasLimit = errors.New("Exceeds block gas limit") ErrNegativeValue = errors.New("Negative value") This has been fixed in version 0.8.1 - make sure to update to see the "real error" message. Please have a look at #669 should you still encounter problems to unlock your wallet. [Quoted text hidden] bullitt995 <notifications@github.com> Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 11:50 PM Reply-To: ethereum/mist <reply.github.com> To: ethereum/mist <mist@noreply.github.com> Hello. I am on the Ethereum Wallet 0.8.2 and I have found exactly the same problem as others have had. On running the wallet for the first time, I set up a password for the main account (etherbase) and supplied it with funds from my exchange. Then, I opened a second wallet and set up a password for that as well. I made a note of each of the passwords. I then tried to transfer some of the funds from the main account to the second account using my main account's password but got the message "wrong password". Tried making the transfer without entering any password, then tried using the password for the second account but with no success. Can anyone advise on what I can do about this please? [Quoted text hidden] ingo1970 <notifications@github.com> Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 11:58 AM Reply-To: ethereum/mist <reply.github.com> To: ethereum/mist <mist@noreply.github.com> Hi I'm having similar problem. I'm trying to send ether from wallet and when I try to send it asks for password. When I enter my password it says Version not supported: 2 Does anyone know what this means? I have the json file in the keystore folder and have the funds in my wallet [Quoted text hidden] caomhanmcm <notifications@github.com> Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 7:14 PM Reply-To: ethereum/mist <reply.github.com> To: ethereum/mist <mist@noreply.github.com> Same as above - any advise much appreciated. I have my password at hand and it says wrong password - [Quoted text hidden] IRG <notifications@github.com> Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 1:30 PM Reply-To: ethereum/mist <reply.github.com> To: ethereum/mist <mist@noreply.github.com> I am having exactly the same problem... [Quoted text hidden] ingo1970 <notifications@github.com> Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 1:33 PM Reply-To: ethereum/mist <reply.github.com> To: ethereum/mist <mist@noreply.github.com> There must be a way to fix this. As its all inside my main wallet right? Very frustrating [Quoted text hidden] Ev <notifications@github.com> Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 9:22 PM Reply-To: ethereum/mist <reply.github.com> To: ethereum/mist <mist@noreply.github.com> @bullitt995 @ingo1970 @caomhanmcm @irgodfrey Just to rule out any possible communication between Mist and the geth node, would you please try this out? #2411 (comment) [Quoted text hidden] Ev <notifications@github.com> Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 9:22 PM Reply-To: ethereum/mist <reply.github.com> To: ethereum/mist <mist@noreply.github.com> Reopened #808. [Quoted text hidden] Steven Ericsson-Zenith <notifications@github.com> Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 4:23 AM Reply-To: ethereum/mist <reply.github.com> To: ethereum/mist <mist@noreply.github.com> I use Mist version 8.10, Geth 1.6.5 (GO), on Mac OSX 10.11.6 I have been dealing with this or a similar issue since the hard fork (June last year). At the fork, my Ether holdings were on Coinbase GDAX. They converted the Old Ether to the New Ether and I subsequently sent it all to my Ether wallet (Mist) on my computer. I have ~25 Ether that I cannot move to another wallet. Since the latest release, the ether returned (they had disappeared for a while) but SEND asks me to enter a password. There is no password that I am aware of for this transaction and the application now opens perfectly. I was experimenting with Ether in June 2016 and after this complication, I had written the currency off. I did subsequently buy a few Ether at $7 and placed them in my Keepkey - which is where I want to send my other Ether. However, now that Ether has established some real value I would like to recover my 25 tokens from this manifest bug. I have reviewed the various bug reports and documentation, seen many people with similar problems. [Quoted text hidden] Fabian Vogelsteller <notifications@github.com> Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 11:25 AM Reply-To: ethereum/mist <reply.github.com> To: ethereum/mist <mist@noreply.github.com> If it's an old keystore you might be able to import it on myetherwallet.com and send it somewhere safe [Quoted text hidden] Steven Ericsson-Zenith <notifications@github.com> Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 3:52 AM Reply-To: ethereum/mist <reply.github.com> To: ethereum/mist <mist@noreply.github.com> A nice idea but it asks me for a password, assuming I have the correct key ... they seem to have moved about. [Quoted text hidden] larandi <notifications@github.com> Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 4:02 PM Reply-To: ethereum/mist <reply.github.com> To: ethereum/mist <mist@noreply.github.com> Hi, I have an etherbase account created before hardfork, now I see a working password doesnt work anymore. I didnt use that account for one year, other 2 accounts works fine. Is there a bug or rather is there a procedure how to fix it ? Thank you. I use only onte password for crypto and this is really strange. I even have read that there was apossibility with no password years ago. Please thank you for any advice. 1ETH fee to who is able to help me successfully . L [Quoted text hidden] To: ethereum/mist <reply.github.com> go back and look for another password if you are sure there is only one then try to enter it again. And make sure you are entering it at the correct window for sending a transaction.. the screen that asks for a password tricked many people when they set up their ether base wallets. they thought later they did not add a password. but also I did get some feedback that there may have been some errors occurring as well so maybe you need to try it again. good luck [Quoted text hidden] larandi <notifications@github.com> Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 4:07 AM Reply-To: ethereum/mist <reply.github.com> To: ethereum/mist <mist@noreply.github.com> Hi , thanks for a feedback, what do you mean exactly by " there may have been some errors occurring as well" ? Is there a fix or I`m just pretty dumb and typed a random password ? It`s weird I have lot of cryptocurrency wallets and I always put the same password. Also my 2 other ETH wallet account passwords are the same. I will try to brute force via python with known passwords variations. Stepan.

---------- Původní e-mail ---------- Komu: ethereum/mist <mist@noreply.github.com> Datum: 3. 7. 2017 1:18:49 Předmět: Re: [ethereum/mist] Being asked for password to send from etherbase account on mist. Never made password (#808) "go back and look for another password if you are sure there is only one then try to enter it again. And make sure you are entering it at the correct window for sending a transaction.. the screen that asks for a password tricked many people when they set up their ether base wallets. they thought later they did not add a password. but also I did get some feedback that there may have been some errors occurring as well so maybe you need to try it again. good luck

On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 4:02 PM, larandi ***@***.***> wrote: Hi, I have an etherbase account created before hardfork, now I see a working password doesnt work anymore. I didnt use that account for one year, other 2 accounts works fine. Is there a bug or rather is there a procedure how to fix it ? Thank you. I use only onte password for crypto and this is really strange. I even have read that there was apossibility with no password years ago. Please thank you for any advice. 1ETH fee to who is able to help me successfully . L — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#808 (comment)>, or

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— You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub (#808 (comment)), or mute the thread (https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe- auth/AcdgGpIuoinekm2mBAyBdWJxPaDCQ365ks5sKCVUgaJpZM4I0EJZ) . [Quoted text hidden] To: ethereum/mist <reply.github.com> I cannot say for sure since in my case I did actually enter a password so I just had to find it even though I did not remember making any password. I found so many others made this mistake. However before I realized this mistake I made I did get many helps from the devs and others. If was during this time that the wallet was doing things according to the programmers who made it that it should not do. So hence there was a bug or bugs in the wallet. However again this was not the reason I was locked out. But seemed like it could have caused problems for others. I can look for more notes if you really need this info of the things that should not have happened according to other people not me, who claimed to be coders for that wallet. I will just say that many people felt that they were asked for a password when they were not sure they were setting up a wallet. I think this window was changed in later versions. At least that was discussed, since so many people had the same problem. It made me feel less dumb. [Quoted text hidden] Steven Ericsson-Zenith <notifications@github.com> Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 12:06 PM .github.com> To: ethereum/mist <mist@noreply.github.com> I continue to have a similar problem. In my case I sent the ether from coinbase after the hard fork and after the conversion by them. Now I cannot access those coins that arrived here in the Ethereum wallet. [Quoted text hidden] To: ethereum/mist <reply.github.com> here is a message from 7-19-2016 I tried to recreate this issue. This is the result of my cursory code analysis: #982. As I as well as the other devs who created this code were not able recreate this issue I will close this for now - until this can be reproducibly recreated. Additionally we fixed an issue were any error message defaulted to "wrong password" - regardless of the real error - which include: ErrInvalidSender = errors.New("Invalid sender") ErrNonce = errors.New("Nonce too low") ErrCheap = errors.New("Gas price too low for acceptance") ErrBalance = errors.New("Insufficient balance") ErrNonExistentAccount = errors.New("Account does not exist or account balance too low") ErrInsufficientFunds = errors.New("Insufficient funds for gas * price + value") ErrIntrinsicGas = errors.New("Intrinsic gas too low") ErrGasLimit = errors.New("Exceeds block gas limit") ErrNegativeValue = errors.New("Negative value") This has been fixed in version 0.8.1 - make sure to update to see the "real error" message. Please have a look at #669 should you still encounter problems to unlock your wallet. [Quoted text hidden] ingo1970 <notifications@github.com> Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 1:45 AM .github.com> To: ethereum/mist <mist@noreply.github.com> I'm on version 0.8.9 and cant access one of my accounts. My main account isn't a problem. Its one of the additional accounts. Its asking for a password and the one I created for the main account isn't working. I haven't created any other passwords so very frustrating. It just says version not supported: 2 [Quoted text hidden] ingo1970 <notifications@github.com> Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 1:46 AM To: ethereum/mist <mist@noreply.github.com> I can send funds from main account. I should be able to at least send funds to main account. So frustrating. [Quoted text hidden] ingo1970 <notifications@github.com> Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 1:48 AM Reply-To: ethereum/mist <reply.github.com> To: ethereum/mist <mist@noreply.github.com> using mac [Quoted text hidden] .github.com> For the second account there may be two places where the password can be added. I had luck when I found the second place in the send window. I too did not think I had any password. but I did. Once I found the password and entered it in the second place on the send window it worked. Please forgive I am working off memory and I do not remember the version wallet. But it was an early one. Many people stated that when they created the ether base wallet that they did not remember making a password. so maybe you wrote down one in another location. Please check, that is what saved me. Also you might try common passwords to get it unlocked. Trust me I did not think I had a password either. But I did. You can post a screen shot of what you are getting? It seems to be that "version 2 not supported is not the same as password not found, etc. Maybe your problem is different that you are having. hmmm.. I can re post the rest of the older messages in this thread if it helps. Approx. 15 of them show as being deleted. I will do this shortly. 17Bby7eLU563HaNVHm7V7GspVzUn7Sguw7 [Quoted text hidden]

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On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 2:22 AM, h h ***@***.***> wrote: For the second account there may be two places where the password can be added. I had luck when I found the second place in the send window. I too did not think I had any password. but I did. Once I found the password and entered it in the second place on the send window it worked. Please forgive I am working off memory and I do not remember the version wallet. But it was an early one. Many people stated that when they created the ether base wallet that they did not remember making a password. so maybe you wrote down one in another location. Please check, that is what saved me. Also you might try common passwords to get it unlocked. Trust me I did not think I had a password either. But I did. You can post a screen shot of what you are getting? It seems to be that "version 2 not supported is not the same as password not found, etc. Maybe your problem is different that you are having. hmmm.. I can re post the rest of the older messages in this thread if it helps. Approx. 15 of them show as being deleted. I will do this shortly. 17Bby7eLU563HaNVHm7V7GspVzUn7Sguw7 On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 1:45 AM, ingo1970 ***@***.***> wrote: > I'm on version 0.8.9 and cant access one of my accounts. My main account > isn't a problem. Its one of the additional accounts. Its asking for a > password and the one I created for the main account isn't working. I > haven't created any other passwords so very frustrating. It just says > version not supported: 2 > > — > You are receiving this because you were mentioned. > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <#808 (comment)>, or mute > the thread > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AS-tObodEHJ-rXQDU5tKVaam3dcwhjuGks5sKdGQgaJpZM4I0EJZ> > . >

[ghost]

I can say this, I was prompted for the password always - in 03/2016, when the wallet with etherbase account was created, the password is in my xls file, but doesnt work anymore, since I do not know when (maybe hard fork) . The second ETH account I created in 04/2016 and after hard fork is still accessible, both accounts have the same password. All my wallets use the same passwd. , for BTC, LTC, ETH , it is my rule to prevent a problem and my BTC and LTC wallets were created earlier with the same pswd., No way to change my password creating rule. If the password of etherbase acc has been changed by the changes of programming and many wallet updates, who knows via what procedure is modificated now. Im now running python cracker, very customized for my case, on several servers, over 30 milions of combinations of my commonly used password fragments are already checked , still negative..... More used cores means better speed, but even on 100CPU cores on multiple machines it is not possible to do a brute force, because of veeeeeryyyy slow library response. If the password is modificated by something , is lost forever. If the password is created by me, I will find it within several weeks or years. If there is a programmer capable to use VGA cores , it could be more interesting, but Im afraid the library response is the biggest problem of cracking speed. Imput file with password fragment combinations is most important. The worst on the problem is, I know the password, I have it , written down in xls, it just has stopped working since I dont know when. And it is strange, why everyone has only problem on etherbase account only ? There is something bad. I have never made something like this and nobody told me if I have to - https://steemit.com/ethereum/@pauls/ethereum-fork-step-by-step-guide-to-safely-splitting-your-eth-etc

[LuisPCorn]

I have saved my Keystore but I have the same problem like others, I mean, "wrong password". Before to lose my money i would like to know if can to pay back the ETH to "Myetherwallet". I send 0.25 ETH from "Myetherwallet" to Ethereum Wallet. What i did not know was it would be a impossible mission to install and update this Ethereum Wallet. What i did not know was i would lose my money asking me a password i never wrote. For that I want to know if i can to payback the money to the sender "myetherwallet". Thanks

[andirayo]

@eisgold :

In this case a new adress will be auto generated without user interaction and unknown password.

What do you mean by "unknown passwor"?
Can you please elaborate? Is there no way to brute-force this password? What is the alphabet/grammar, that this password is created from? What is the length?

[Bitbobb]

many people entered a password as part of the setup of mist and then later did not remember they had done this step. I was one of them.

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On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 6:33 PM, Andreas Rayo Kniep < ***@***.***> wrote: @eisgold <https://github.com/eisgold> : In this case a new adress will be auto generated without user interaction and unknown password. What do you mean by "unknown passwor"? Can you please elaborate? Is there no way to brute-force this password? What is the alphabet/grammar, that this password is created from? What is the length? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#808 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AS-tOZfqcrCeKRJZsWyCmcmEdG1sk71fks5ss9mrgaJpZM4I0EJZ> .

[andirayo]

@Bitbobb : Yeah, that explanation surely makes the most sense.
However, I created both accounts ("Main Account (Etherbase)" and "Account 1") only 40 minutes apart (keystore timestamps), I use the same password for all my Ethereum wallets, and the other account ("Account 1") works without a problem. So, I assumed it must have been a typo and (using pyethereum) tried 900,000+ combinations of my password with typos of any kind: no success.
There are so many posts in the internet of people claiming, they did not set up their password and now they can't transfer funds, that I wonder if there might be an issue upon first account-creation, at least with the Ethereum Wallet v0.7.4... maybe, in certain situations, the password is in fact auto-generated and to crack it, I would need to know the alphabet/grammer used for an auto-generated password.

[McWorse]

The same problem here:
I am always very meticolous in creating and saving my passwords. And I am absolutely sure, that I wasn't asked for a password when I setup the wallet (0.8.9). If I would have been asked, I would have saved the password. I remember, that I was amazed, because I knew it from other wallets, that you have to create passwords and passphrases first. And I wondered, how ethereumwallet could be save. I remember, that I did some research, found out, that my private key is in the keystore folder. I looked into that folder, found a file there and thought: Well, the wallet created the passphrase by itself. So I backed up that file and felt save. I bought some ETH and transfered them into the wallet.

And now, 8 months later, after a never ending chain of problems with the blockchain synchronisation, which holds me captive for at least 2 months, and the deep insight, that I should leave this user-hostile wallet as fast as I can behind, I tried to import the json-file into myetherwallet.com - and I get asked for a password. But I never created one! If I would have given a password, I would have saved it - like I did with every other password I created in the last 4 years!

To see, that many others have the same problem, makes me calm down a bit, because I comprehend, that I am not crazy. So many people can't be crazy! And this makes me upset:
After searching around, I did not read a single serious statement from a dev, what is going wrong here. I did not found a single serious offer for help. Or a little hint, that someone from the staff from the foundation takes this issue for serious.

People are losing money, because of a bug in your software! And I am one of them.
So how will you help us?

[Bitbobb]

yes agree. I got my ether after my ordeal concluded with me finding a random password I wrote not like I usually do. I can tell by the way I wrote this ether mist password that I did not think it was a serious password. I think I am lucky I wrote it down since it did not occur to me to be important like the way other wallets set up their passwords to be written down to be verified before moving on. Eth devs said they would make this area more memorable. Agree it was not easy to get this bug looked at. After I saw this I sold all my ether and got the wallet off my computer. Plus the wallet took several days to sync and the project claimed it would not be ready for 5 years.. regards.

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On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 6:51 AM, McWorse ***@***.***> wrote: The same problem here: I am always very meticolous in creating and saving my passwords. And I am absolutely sure, that I wasn't asked for a password when I setup the wallet (0.8.9). If I would have been asked, I would have saved the password. I remember, that I was amazed, because I knew it from other wallets, that you have to create passwords and passphrases first. And I wondered, how ethereumwallet could be save. I remember, that I did some research, found out, that my private key is in the keystore folder. I looked into that folder, found a file there and thought: Well, the wallet created the passphrase by itself. So I backed up that file and felt save. I bought some ETH and transfered them into the wallet. And now, 8 months later, after a never ending chain of problems with the blockchain synchronisation, which holds me captive for at least 2 months, and the deep insight, that I should leave this user-hostile wallet as fast as I can behind, I tried to import the json-file into myetherwallet.com - and I get asked for a password. But I never created one! If I would have given a password, I would have saved it - like I did with *every other password I created in the last 4 years*! To see, that many others have the same problem, makes me calm down a bit, because I comprehend, that I am not crazy. So many people can't be crazy! And this makes me upset: After searching around, I did not read a *single serious statement* from a dev, what is going wrong here. I did not found a single serious offer for help. Or a little hint, that someone from the staff from the foundation takes this issue for serious. People are losing money, because of a bug in your software! And I am one of them. So how will you help us? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#808 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AS-tOUR2PejSX6utuV0eI0JumPdcHjDWks5szcuPgaJpZM4I0EJZ> .

[manufy]

The same here. Neither backup works,wallet withtout password and no .json file or wallet file, only geth and keystore dirs, I keep back from initial install win some eth.

Password is asked when try to send and I did set a bklank password.
Regards

[andirayo]

@Bitbobb: Can you share the random password with us, that you found?
I'm asking, because maybe that may help us, remember, what happened to us, when installing the wallet!?

[andirayo]

Good news from/for me: After months of not having access to my Ethereum/Mist Wallet and starting to mentally give up on my Ether, I was able to gain access yesterday.
After checking 47 million passwords, I was able to find the password, that my wallet-file was encrypted with. Incredibly, I had apparently mis-typed one letter ("i" instead of "e"), even though, I used the "correct" password (without typo) for my 2nd wallet, that I had created only minutes later.
I was able to find my password by using pyethereum (https://github.com/ethereum/pyethereum) and a self-written script, inspired by https://github.com/danielchalef/pyethrecoverv3 and https://github.com/burjorjee/pyethrecover.

Step 1: I created a list of all password-parts, that I had ever used for anything.
Step 2: By combining the password-parts in any thinkable way, I created a list of 47,372 passwords, that I could have used as passwords for my Ethereum wallet.
Step 3: For every password, I created all possible typos and other thinkable issues (e.g. caps-lock-key on, omit any character, replace any character by any other character, swap characters, replace special characters by special character encodings, duplicate letters, add spaces, and so on).
Step 4: I cleaned the list (removing passwords < 10 characters, removed duplicates). After step 4, I ended up with over 47 million possible passwords.
Step 5: I checked all 47 million possible passwords by parallel executing my script on the 48 cores (Xeon E5-2690 v3 @ 2.60GHz) of my machine. The speed was about 1.9M passwords/day.
I hope, this inspires some of you to also find your lost password!

[Bitbobb]

This is great news and good info you posted. I am sure others will be helped by it. Thanks!

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On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Andreas Rayo Kniep < ***@***.***> wrote: Good news from/for me: After months of not having access to my Ethereum/Mist Wallet and starting to mentally give up on my Ether, I was able to gain access yesterday. After checking 47 million passwords, I was able to find the password, that my wallet-file was encrypted with. Incredibly, I had apparently mis-typed one letter ("i" instead of "e"), even though, I used the "correct" password (without typo) for my 2nd wallet, that I had created only minutes later. I was able to find my password by using pyethereum ( https://github.com/ethereum/pyethereum) and a self-written script, inspired by https://github.com/danielchalef/pyethrecoverv3 and https://github.com/burjorjee/pyethrecover. Step 1: I created a list of all password-parts, that I had ever used for anything. Step 2: By combining the password-parts in any thinkable way, I created a list of 47,372 passwords, that I could have used as passwords for my Ethereum wallet. Step 3: For every password, I created all possible typos and other thinkable issues (e.g. caps-lock-key on, omit any character, replace any character by any other character, swap characters, replace special characters by special character encodings, duplicate letters, add spaces, and so on). Step 4: I cleaned the list (removing passwords < 10 characters, removed duplicates). After step 4, I ended up with over 47 million possible passwords. Step 5: I checked all 47 million possible passwords by parallel executing my script on the 48 cores (Xeon E5-2690 v3 @ 2.60GHz) of my machine. The speed was about 1.9M passwords/day. I hope, this inspires some of you to also find your lost password! — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#808 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AS-tOVtXL715g79ljDRYqzLcfHKXERoDks5s60QygaJpZM4I0EJZ> .

[nlxdodge]

I used the skip option, no idea what my password is. But brute forcing it would take around 50 days. For my 0.05 eth.

[SunainaDG]

I have a wierder problem.
So I started a geth --dev network with the below command in the command prompt.

geth --datadir "C:\Ethereum\gethNode" --keystore "C:\Ethereum\keys" --rpc -- dev console

It shows that it has automatically configured my ether base:

INFO [03-20|09:33:33] Maximum peer count ETH=25 LES=0 total=25
INFO [03-20|09:33:35] Using developer account address=0x8bC8f441c8F79737fB2cBA80C8758F8A6D50c8A7
INFO [03-20|09:33:35] Starting peer-to-peer node instance=Geth/v1.8.2-stable-b8b9f7f4/windows-amd64/go1.9.2
INFO [03-20|09:33:35] Allocated cache and file handles database=C:\Ethereum\Geth\geth\chaindata cache=768 handles=1024
INFO [03-20|09:33:35] Writing custom genesis block
INFO [03-20|09:33:35] Persisted trie from memory database nodes=11 size=2.17kB time=0s gcnodes=0 gcsize=0.00B gctime=0s livenodes=1 livesize=0.00B
INFO [03-20|09:33:35] Initialised chain configuration config="{ChainID: 1337 Homestead: 0 DAO: DAOSupport: false EIP150: 0 EIP155: 0 EIP158: 0 Byzantium: 0 Constantinople: Engine: clique}"
INFO [03-20|09:33:35] Initialising Ethereum protocol versions="[63 62]" network=1
INFO [03-20|09:33:35] Loaded most recent local header number=0 hash=5a0a8b…323bf6 td=1
INFO [03-20|09:33:35] Loaded most recent local full block number=0 hash=5a0a8b…323bf6 td=1
INFO [03-20|09:33:35] Loaded most recent local fast block number=0 hash=5a0a8b…323bf6 td=1
INFO [03-20|09:33:35] Regenerated local transaction journal transactions=0 accounts=0
INFO [03-20|09:33:35] Starting P2P networking
INFO [03-20|09:33:35] started whisper v.5.0
INFO [03-20|09:33:35] RLPx listener up self="enode://dc1ab44512565095d4ac056e4d268467e3c29ffc9507e4e68d72f26e5911d10801c32602d38e7c9d3f0cd785f30aac83dd8b5fbb591a0c89c1757fbf92b36b0f@[::]:49841?discport=0"
INFO [03-20|09:33:35] HTTP endpoint opened url=http://127.0.0.1:8545 cors= vhosts=localhost
INFO [03-20|09:33:35] Transaction pool price threshold updated price=18000000000
INFO [03-20|09:33:35] IPC endpoint opened url=\\.\pipe\geth.ipc
INFO [03-20|09:33:35] Etherbase automatically configured address=0x8bC8f441c8F79737fB2cBA80C8758F8A6D50c8A7
INFO [03-20|09:33:35] Starting mining operation
INFO [03-20|09:33:35] Commit new mining work number=1 txs=0 uncles=0 elapsed=0s
WARN [03-20|09:33:35] Block sealing failed err="waiting for transactions"
Welcome to the Geth JavaScript console!

instance: Geth/v1.8.2-stable-b8b9f7f4/windows-amd64/go1.9.2
coinbase: 0x8bc8f441c8f79737fb2cba80c8758f8a6d50c8a7
at block: 0 (Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT)
datadir: C:\Ethereum\Geth
modules: admin:1.0 clique:1.0 debug:1.0 eth:1.0 miner:1.0 net:1.0 personal:1.0 rpc:1.0 shh:1.0 txpool:1.0 web3:1.0

Where is my password? how do i make all the transactions from this etherbase?

I even tried using mist to check, but even mist is asking for a password

[philsmd]

As explained here #3513 (comment) and #3762 the password is the empty string (zero length password). You just need to hit enter if you use personal.unlockAccount (eth.accounts[0]) or similar

I would like to invite you to report "wrong password" related technical reports within this github issue: #3513 (because it seems all other issues will be closed in favor of #3513 )

[SunainaDG]

@philsmd Thank you so much.. Will do that henceforth.

[svobodnu1]

pc-dopomoga @ mail . ru Remove spaces, I can help with password recovery, have a lot of experience and feedback

[Metatronovich]

Did you copy/paste the files from c:\ethereum, put it to a second computer and just run it ? In this case a new adress will be auto generated without user interaction and unknown password. Money send to this adress will be trapped.

Is no one going to take notes on this error?
This is exactly what I did ( if i remember correctly.)

What is the next step on such a problem? What password is auto created, what parameters in the original code?

[xander77a]

I made numerous crypto accounts at the same time in 2017. I meticulously documented every pw that I made, and saved them in txt files on my computer. For the first time ever, I just tried sending ETH out of my etherbase wallet, and it asks for a pw that I don't have. Is it possible that the pw field has been corrupted, or wasn't required when I first downloaded the wallet? I'm using OSX and don't have the wherewithal to brute force it. I only have 1.1 ETH in there, but it's money I worked hard for and definitely want it back. To be clear, I do NOT remember making a pw for this application. What can I do?

[Metatronovich]

I made numerous crypto accounts at the same time in 2017. I meticulously documented every pw that I made, and saved them in txt files on my computer. For the first time ever, I just tried sending ETH out of my etherbase wallet, and it asks for a pw that I don't have. Is it possible that the pw field has been corrupted, or wasn't required when I first downloaded the wallet? I'm using OSX and don't have the wherewithal to brute force it. I only have 1.1 ETH in there, but it's money I worked hard for and definitely want it back. To be clear, I do NOT remember making a pw for this application. What can I do?

Welcome to the club, check out this thread for suggestions.

[xander77a]

What is the best brute force method for an ether base account on OSX? Where is my keystore file, and can the attempts to crack this wallet originate from another lan connected device, or can the wallet be transferred to a Windows machine (an isolated build with substantially more power) and cracked there?

[xander77a]

Thans for the reply! xda www.linkedin.com/in/xander

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On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 12:46 AM AtomSoul ***@***.***> wrote: I made numerous crypto accounts at the same time in 2017. I meticulously documented every pw that I made, and saved them in txt files on my computer. For the first time ever, I just tried sending ETH out of my etherbase wallet, and it asks for a pw that I don't have. Is it possible that the pw field has been corrupted, or wasn't required when I first downloaded the wallet? I'm using OSX and don't have the wherewithal to brute force it. I only have 1.1 ETH in there, but it's money I worked hard for and definitely want it back. To be clear, I do NOT remember making a pw for this application. What can I do? Welcome to the club, check out this thread <#3513> for suggestions. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#808 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AvBMW9bc0yg-NI-wDEZqEkbFvQ6S8whUks5vdv9AgaJpZM4I0EJZ> .