It's not very well documented, and it seems that at least one of the ways to do it either doesn't work or doesn't work how it seems like it should according to the text from gethelp in the wallet.

@someguy123 gave me a link to good info about account recovery, which is relevant if you are going to create new accounts - and some traps to be wary of (namely, the fidelity of the user who creates your new account).

Firstly, I made a new wallet, set a password, and used import_key to pull in my active key, as creating accounts spends 10 blurt tokens.

Next, after unlocking, I ran the following command:

create_account "youraccount" "desiredaccount" "" true

This spits out a result like this:

{
  "ref_block_num": 55717,
  "ref_block_prefix": 1728938512,
  "expiration": "2020-07-31T07:07:48",
  "operations": [[
      "account_create",{
        "fee": "10.000 BLURT",
        "creator": "stalker.loki",
        "new_account_name": "the.unicorn.king",
        "owner": {
          "weight_threshold": 1,
          "account_auths": [],
          "key_auths": [[
              "BLT6rb6SiZQ717Z4p2ESwZ9CKvLKEaZfAu5MEvW6Mb3xfrCv2rWgj",
              1
            ]
          ]
        },
        "active": {
          "weight_threshold": 1,
          "account_auths": [],
          "key_auths": [[
              "BLT6819V3kmb7f1qffMzoSPWV8EMUDSgGUQfErYV8EaaEcGZni73Y",
              1
            ]
          ]
        },
        "posting": {
          "weight_threshold": 1,
          "account_auths": [],
          "key_auths": [[
              "BLT5KHPjMfrKHZahc5DcrFDs7CELuporLU1rT56EEU626ymy1eG4U",
              1
            ]
          ]
        },
        "memo_key": "BLT68XLLC4JTkuEC9jHL2SFo3A6na8xVzL7jj4vmAFL867cmuU7rK",
        "json_metadata": ""
      }
    ]
  ],
  "extensions": [],
  "signatures": [
    "201f9bf10077f9dcbb782e85294256b6b4fe6bb215bb7420877977133156e588d71a7ddfb919c960dd4d88aca226be79a0de9c4b9c9b965170a4bd64048f4d1463"
  ],
  "transaction_id": "19ec9753bd16e2d1190216b6fd6c02f193bb092d",
  "block_num": 776614,
  "transaction_num": 0
}

As you can see, it's not showing any private keys... It doesn't have to, the user uses that to prove they control it and to sign authorised transactions.

To find the private keys, you can do this:

list_keys
[[
    "BLT5KHPjMfrKHZahc5DcrFDs7CELuporLU1rT56EEU626ymy1eG4U",
    "private key"
  ],[
    "BLT5dDStPAvwknBtdcfTM5S5NqPvMp655HWFY63ETGc3dbzZzRGn3",
    "private key"
  ],[
    "BLT6819V3kmb7f1qffMzoSPWV8EMUDSgGUQfErYV8EaaEcGZni73Y",
    "private key"
  ],[
    "BLT68XLLC4JTkuEC9jHL2SFo3A6na8xVzL7jj4vmAFL867cmuU7rK",
    "private key"
  ],[
    "BLT6rb6SiZQ717Z4p2ESwZ9CKvLKEaZfAu5MEvW6Mb3xfrCv2rWgj",
    "private key
  ]
]

As you can see (i have redacted the private keys of course) none of them have labels.

One of them is your active key. The other four are the owner, active, posting and memo keys.

I don't know if there is any order to them, they look to me like they are lexicographically sorted, by the public key, as you can see, the ones with 5 precede the ones with 6 after the BLT prefix, and in those groups they are also sorted.

So, what you do is go into https://blurtwallet.com/@newusername after you have created the account, and go through each of those keys trying to log in. Then check the keys and permissions tab in the wallet https://blurtwallet.com/@newusername/permissions, and try to reveal them.

This brings up a login dialog, and then go through each one using the private keys from list_keys as shown above, and when you get the right one, it will display it in the text field. Label it for your reference, and once you find which of the 5 is which keys, you are done!

This is just the procedure I sniffed out by trial and error. There is probably better ways to do it but since currently it is not easy to find out how to do this, I wanted to make sure others would have a starting point to work from.

Don't forget to also send some liquid blurt to the account so it can transact.

Blurt Loves You ❤️