Node ID mismatched problem

[nyancodex]

Hi guys, I was trying to retrieve the node id using identity command:

 identity certificate-authority id --ca.cert-path identity.cert
2025-12-18T16:27:30Z    INFO    Anonymized tracing enabled
base58-check node ID:   1AvWAduWsFcwJC5pkVt9q934SYcpKVYigS4s9enggw2QTBGWgZ
hex node ID:            3141765741647557734663774a4335706b56743971393334535963704b5659696753347339656e676777325154424757675a
node ID bytes:          [22 135 184 253 222 210 32 194 167 19 191 71 0 254 50 217 208 194 219 142 119 217 57 128 205 180 220 211 139 229 82 0]
difficulty:             9

but the node ID is different from the actual node ID I see for my node

19yKczzNjwdCUppd1j4e2RZt6sU1qyYoxBsvMD88oxVkANYkEW

why is that?

[Alexey]

Because you specified a wrong certificate, you need to check ca.cert, not identity.cert.
Please, specify the full path to the CA certificate:

RaspberryPi crash

./identity certificate-authority id --ca.cert-path /mnt/storagenode2/identity/ca.cert It will print a NodeID. Then you need to search in your logs, what was the NodeID before. Please also SKIP a SETUP step, it must not be executed again for a worked node, otherwise you can destroy it. no, this token is one-time only and can be used only once to sign any identity, after that it has no use. It also doesn’t contain any info related to your node (even to used email address, it’s just used for …

[nyancodex]

I don’t remember how I created the identity but now there’s only 2 files in the identity folder: identity.key and identity.cert?

[nyancodex]

I found it. Thank you!