gentx --name vuser --amount 10000000foo asks for keyring password three times

[njmurarka]

I was talking with @alessio today and it was noted that with 0.38.1 of the SDK, if I run gentx (at least with file-based keyring backend), I am asked for the keyring password three times.

This is a bit of a usability problem. I'd suggest there be some documentation about this or it be "resolved". It came across as a concern, as if we were doing something wrong, because of this behaviour.

[alexanderbez]

I suppose we have to trace the execution call stack of this command and see where the passphrase is needed. Having this info, we can update APIs to accept a passphrase instead of asking for it?

[alessio]

It's possible already to pass a buffer to keys.NewKeyring() with a passphrase. This is potentially dup of #5403 (gentx shows this behaviour only when with the file backend)

[alessio]

This is blocked by post-protobuffer transition related work, i.e. TxBuilder should disapperar soon cc @alexanderbez

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[rllola]

I am not able to reproduce this. Is it still happening ? @njmurarka could you let me know if it is still a problem.

[tac0turtle]

closing this in favour of https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/issues/12901