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There are multiple developers on the team and it seems as though we all want to be working on a specific test network with specific public and private keys with a specific number of users who all have a prespecified balance. We have chosen to work with Ganache.

Now I am aware of https://github.com/trufflesuite/ganache-cli options with --account=. This does not allow for the specification of the public key of each user. What is the standard when recreating a network? Am I missing out on something fundamental to this process? What are my options?

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  • This does not allow for the specification of the public key of each user - no, but it allows for the specification of the private key of each user, and the public key derives from that in a (pretty much) one-to-one way.
    – goodvibration
    Jul 24, 2020 at 13:20
  • pretty one to one way? Is that 100% correct? Do I need to modify the pneumonic to comply with this one to one mapping?
    – SDG
    Jul 24, 2020 at 15:09
  • What???? Ganache creates unique accounts according to unique private keys that you provide using the --account option. What more do you want???
    – goodvibration
    Jul 24, 2020 at 15:42

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Using ganache-cli, you can provide a mnemonic using the flag below, in order to produce the same pre-funded addresses and public keys every time you start ganache. The accounts flag just defines the number of accounts that you will create.

-m or --mnemonic: Use a bip39 mnemonic phrase for generating a PRNG seed, which is in turn used for hierarchical deterministic (HD) account generation.

Per the comments - the addresses and private keys generated will be one to one regardless of the mnemonic.

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