Multichain is not working properly on AWS

Question

I am trying to setup multichain on AWS (Amazon Web Service). After installing multichain and creating chain if I try to get the permissions of the wallet address getting "invalid permission" error.

API used is : listpermissions * address

Error :

{"method":"listpermissions","params":["*","1NYHbp1UbJn4CozTdvAr75iiBtHjJBb6NjZ1V3"],"id":1,"chain_name":"trace"}

error code: -5
error message:
Invalid permission

Answer 1

Both of these ["*","1NYHbp1UbJn4CozTdvAr75iiBtHjJBb6NjZ1V3"]

Are being treated as a permission

you should have {["*"],["1NYHbp1UbJn4CozTdvAr75iiBtHjJBb6NjZ1V3"]}

or

you should have {"*","1NYHbp1UbJn4CozTdvAr75iiBtHjJBb6NjZ1V3"}

 

ie. The first parameter which can be an array of permissions is thinking that the permissions you want is * and the address, when in fact you want permission to be * and the address to be your address.

 

On the cli commandline -

You are doing this

multichain-cli chain listpermissions *,1BbFXaQNoZpEsZoEJonyZzpyW

instead of this (notice comma is now a space)

multichain-cli chain listpermissions * 1BbFXaQNoZpEsZoEJonyZzpyW

Comments

I am using API in cli as follow,

multichain-cli chain listpermissions * 1BbFXaQNoZpEsZoEJonyZzpyW

for this am getting invalid permission. But if I use below command,

multichain-cli chain listpermissions

then it will lists all the permissions of all the addresses.

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Are you running it from the same node?

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Yes am executing from the same node.

Answer 2

You can try using all instead of * to reference all permissions – this might be an issue if you're using an old version of MultiChain.