Everybody knows that the master password and owner key are very important for our steem account, the same goes for the active private key.

So it should be more security if we only use posting private key to login, post, comment and vote on steemit.com and other third party sites.

But It is impossible to remember a such long posting private key and it's very annoying thing to copy&paste posting private key every time when we login steemit.com or other sites, for example, busy.org.

So is there a way to use posting private key just like the password? Or in other words, how to set up a user-friendly password for posting private key?

I try to figure out it then I found out a way to do so.

Steps

• First, you must have steem-python installed on your machine or other computer you can access.
  Check github to find out how to install and more details information about it

• Check your active private key at steemit.com.
  Wallet->Permissions->ACTIVE->SHOW PRIVATE KEY

• Import the active private key to the local wallet of steem-python use following command.
  steempy addkey
  
  Pasted your active private key according to the prompt.

• Write a simple script to generate posting private key & posting public key from password
  
  (Replace the account, passwd with your account and the password you want to use.)

• Run the script
  
  (Now we got the posting private key & posting public key)

• Now we will use steempy the command line tool for steem to finalize our operation.
  steempy allow --account oflyhigh.test STM8WgLmubC1KgbDiUgBuXeLuEzJYnkz8q8vnEmGapqCH4KWWuf6h

• The result
  

• Let's we check the account oflyhigh.test on steemd.com.
  
  And here:
  
  Everything is correct.

Check Login

Now, It's time to check on what we've done!

• Logout from steemit, and open the login page
• Input the account name oflyhigh.test and the password mypasswd
  
• Click the LOGIN button, Now we login successfully and the welcome page shows.
  
• Check our profile, all things right.
  
• You can also login with the new posting private key we generated in above step, but it is not necessary.

Conclusions

It's very tedious to log in steemit.com with the posting private key.

In this article, I had introduced you a method to set up a user-friendly password for posting private key. Now, we can use this password to log in steemit and other third party sites, It just works as same as the posting private key.

CAUTION!!

Use this script unless you really know what you're doing! Improper operation may cause your account to be locked

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中文

大家都知道主密码、所有者KEY、active私钥是非常重要的。

所以出于安全起见，建议大家用Posting私钥登陆网站、发帖、回复、投票等。

但是Post私钥很长根本记不住，每次复制粘贴还挺麻烦，有没有办法像使用密码一样使用呢？本文介绍了如何为posting私钥设置一个密码。详细步骤参见英文部分。

注意：除非你明确知道你在做什么，否则请慎重操作。