Account created using web3 is not showing in geth console

Question

I have created a new address using web3.eth.accounts.create() and it responds with

{ address: '0x9AA2767207d0aC9cCdD2e3B244210f630588F3E3',
  privateKey:
   '0x15bc394db36ab8745ca34a9961d84abf5a45697823726d500785df940e416cbc',
  signTransaction: [Function: signTransaction],
  sign: [Function: sign],
  encrypt: [Function: encrypt] }

But in geth console, it lists out all my accounts, except 0x9AA2767207d0aC9cCdD2e3B244210f630588F3E3. What have gone wrong here? I'm using web3 -1.0.0-beta.34 . I also tried using web3.eth.personal.newAccount('qwerty') but it shows The method personal_newAccount does not exist/is not available but clearly they mentioned this method in the 1.0.0 documentation.

I have initialised web3 and personal like

var personal = new Personal('http://localhost:8545' || 'ws://localhost:8546');  
    web3 = new Web3(new Web3.providers.HttpProvider('http://localhost:8545') || 'ws://localhost:8546');

Can some one help me on this problem? Thank you.

Answer 1

make sue you have allowed personal api while starting geth like geth --rpc --rpcport "8545" --rpcapi personal

Answer 2

The method that you use web3.eth.accounts.create() creates an account but doesn't link it to your node, instead use newAccount:

web3.eth.personal.newAccount(password, [callback])

That should do. For further details see the docs here

Hope this helps.