ethereum/mist

Need Assistance - Ethereum Password Not Working

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#982 opened on Jul 17, 2016

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Greetings -

Forgive me if I've posted in the wrong place. I am a new user of Ethereum and decided to download the EtherBase wallet from Github. After the download I extracted the files and then opened the Ethereum wallet file and it immediately began syncing with the blockchain right out of the box. Once completed it was ready to go and while syncing it did prompt me for a password and I was very careful in typing it twice and recording it to my password book. So once the blockchain synced I loaded some ether into wallet and it credited fine.

Then, the next day I downloaded Geth and Eth-miner and created 2 additional accounts to the main wallet via CMD window prompt and those accounts prompted me to create a password each which I did and recorded those passwords. Next day I wanted to send some ether from the main EtherBase account and I was prompted for the password which I entered. I got error message "wrong password". So I then tried the passwords for each new account that I created in CMD prompt mode but neither worked.

I am very good with passwords. I've never lost a password in my life or even confused them with others. I copy them down immediately when I comprise them so this is not an issue of a "lost password" or a mistyped password as there is a preventative for this in requiring you to retype password when creating the wallet. I am absolutely certain that the password is correct but the EthereumBase main wallet will not recognize it. I'm thinking that adding the two new accounts to the wallet via Geth CMD prompt may have caused this somehow?

I searched and found others who have had the same issue and people reply saying this could be a bug in the system.

As mentioned, in searches I came across several others who have similar issues but I see no remedy and the threads are now old and inactive. Here is a link to someone else having the same issue #161 but no remedy seemed to have taken place and thread was closed so I am hoping someone can help me out. I'd be eternally grateful for any and all assistance.

Best regards,

dbf ~

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This issue reports a password authentication failure in the Ethereum Mist wallet. The user suspects that adding accounts via Geth may have caused the problem. There is no clear code fix identified, and the repository is deprecated. Contributors should investigate the password verification logic in the Ethereum client codebase, but this issue likely requires deep domain expertise and is not suitable for first time contributors.