Steem multi-authority permissions and how Active authority works, Part 2

[good-karma]

Few weeks ago I have talked about how multi-authority works on Steem post, let's call it Part 1 since these two posts are closely related. First part was about posting authority which helps one account to give permission to other for posting and voting. In this post, I want to dive deeper to give some practical use cases of active authority and private key permissions. This features are advanced but with right use cases there can be quite great applications on top of Steem.

What's multi-authority

Analogy I have used in past post is:

You can share any of the permissions with other accounts on Steem.
Just like, you can rent out room in your house or have more than one passcode to access safe/vault or joint ownership of property/house...

First post also gives you small example how to add/give permission to other account so that you can have joint vault/business account.

steem.api.getAccounts([accountname], function(err, response){
     if (response) {
       var account = response[0];
       var activeAuth = account.active;

       //adding permission
       activeAuth.account_auths.push(['youraccount', activeAuth.weight_threshold]);

       steem.broadcast.accountUpdate(wif, accountname, undefined, activeAuth, undefined, 
            undefined, account.json_metadata, function(err, result) {
         // youraccount got active authority for accountname
       });
     }
});

Now let us take a look what can be done with active authority. As you may know, active authority gives ability to transfer funds, change/update account data, give access to other accounts by adding them to specific authority etc. So you have to be absolutely certain before doing any of these actions, that you trust a person you are adding.

Use of active authority

Using authority is just matter of creating transaction on behalf of other account. Steem already recognizes who is performing action and if they have authority to do so.

transfer operations (powerup, power down), escrow operations (release, transfer, approve), account_update operations (account metadata, permissions, etc.) are possible with active authority.

var operations_array = [
    ['transfer', {
                        from: "accountname",
                        to: "good-karma",
                        amount: "0.001 SBD",
                        memo: ""
         }]
]
//wif is private active key for youraccount

steem.broadcast.send({ operations: operations_array, extensions: [] }, 
             { active: wif }, function(err, res) {
    //youraccount transfer fund on behalf of accountname account.
});

Note: above transaction is being created and broadcasted by youraccount but funds transferred from accountname, pretty cool huh...

Another use case:

One of the common practice nowadays is to lend/delegate SP to another account, above same technique can be used to create market around it with minimum 3rd party trust. All your funds stay in your account. You can use/create automated system where you can lease for certain period of time and system can take care of payments and release of delegations (notify clients). Even better, you can use multi-signature feature to establish 100% trust where clients will have to confirm, approve transactions.

Active permissions and authority should be used with utmost care, you don't want to loose your funds. It is really not easy to hack Steem accounts, let alone take control over it. But without careful use (revealing private keys) loosing liquid funds are not that difficult and it takes only couple seconds to do that, keeping most value powered up always helps...

That's how active authority works in a nutshell!

Before you give permission and authority to any other accounts, beware or make sure you trust them.

Sharing authority is safest and convenient way, rather than sharing your private key directly to a friend, colleague, family, etc. Always know how your private keys are being used and who has access to them. Use them with caution!

Steem on!

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Comments

[intelliguy]

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[intelliguy]

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[good-karma]

Thank you brother! Glad to see your comment and honored, humbled by all your compliments! We all do our parts to improve lives... Steem community is truly amazing, look at all these souls empowering one another, isn't that great?! Appreciate your being here :)

[stonesteem]

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[rina.tours.world]

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[marfa]

Thanks for sharing, @good-karma!)

[englishtchrivy]

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[covekot]

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[zulfi]

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[team101]

Thanks for sharing!

[klen.civil]

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[ahlawat]

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[prashantahlawat]

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[exx007]

Upon reading your post, I just recall streemian.com required my password and username to unlock my account. Do you think that's safe and it never save in one remote server?

[good-karma]

Afaik, streemian only uses your password to add posting authority and that password never leaves your browser.

[polaleye50]

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[beautypics]

UPVOTED.
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[arckrai]

This seems like a pretty good system if someone wants to set up some sort of automated shop or use it for some other use. The even better thing is that you don't have to worry too much about 3rd party interference.
I wish you the best of luck with the development of multi-authority permissions.
Keep up all the great work @good-karma

[good-karma]

Yes, One of the reasons from these posts is to perhaps show potential developers what they can build and how it can bring value to them as well as community. ;)

[dim753]

Insteresting and useful information man, your post are really technical and i really like that

[ejemai]

nicely explained and the info i must say is on point. looking at them again.

[deleni]

Thank you for sharing!
To lend/delegate SP to another account - This can help or alleviate the user with the use of his power. If for any reason he does not have free time

[gauravchugh]

Thanks for the information.. It really helps me and others..

[runridefly]

Steem On!

[shencoin]

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[akinsource]

Good to know.

[juliansyah]

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[clumsysilverdad]

yeah, I delegated some upvoting to one of the steem off-shoot websites, but I cancelled it, I upvote directly now again. ty @good-karma / upvoted

[steemvotes]

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[safwan]

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[dpt-darkfox12]

Thanks for this information @good-karma, I'll be saving this for future use. There's so much to learn about how to use this platform and the community does a great job of posting it for us newbies.

Witness/resteem/upvoted

[cristiungureanu]

Could you use this to set up an automated shop?

Thanks for the awesome article!

[good-karma]

Yes, this and additional escrow transfers to hold funds until goods are received...

[abbyscooking]

[rizasukma]

Thank you for providing this great information. Good luck for you, for me and for my friends all

[sultan-aceh]

nice @good-karma
I am very supportive with the development of multi-authority permissions.
I really appreciate your hard work to progress for steemias @good-karma players

[freetissues]

This is exactly what i need. Now this noob just need to figure out how to implement it.

[atta09]

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@good-karma

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[dswigle]

Thank you! The learning curve has been a little challenging! I appreciate all the information coming my way!

Upvote, Resteem and Followed

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[polem]

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[piyushkansal]

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[gunni55]

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I have faith that your endeavor will work just fine, and make this ship work even better than before.
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[anas7]

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[solivah]

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