Headless minting, need to unlock encrypted wallet?

I followed the guide by Bartlomiej Mika to set up headless Minting and the wallet.dat that I copied over is encrypted but I never entered my passphrase to decrypt it.

I do see “CPUMiner started for proof-of-stake” in debug.log, so I think everything is running okay, but I’m still confused as to why I don’t need to enter my passphrase to decrypt the wallet for minting when running in a headless environment.

Can anyone help fill in some gaps here?

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If the wallet is not locked, you do not need to unlock it.

Was your wallet encrypted?

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It was encrypted, when running peercoind, how would I go about unlocking my wallet?

Also is there a way to verify that the wallet is minting when running peercoind?

Thanks!

peercoin-cli walletpassphrase $passphrase true

Thanks! This helped me get there. Looks like the “timeout” param is required for the “walletpassphrase” command, so I ended up issuing this command to unlock the wallet for minting…

$ peercoin-cli -datadir=/var/lib/peercoin walletpassphrase $passphrase 0 true

Which returned…

{
  "unlocked_minting_only": true
}
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