Private Keys for clients

[Braijan]

In lesson 5 I was learning about .env and utilizing it to hide a private key. Which had me thinking. How do you handle a client's private key when developing smart contracts for them as a free lance programmer? Do they simply trust you with It or do you have to teach them how to deploy it themselves and simply provide them the code? Is there a standard way to go about this to keep your clients info safe and make it easy for them to deploy their contracts?

[PatrickAlphaC]

You neeeeevvvveerrrrr take a private key from a user, and you nneevvveerrrrrr trust someone with your private key.

Once you get to lesson 8 you'll learn how front ends work :)

You only send signed transactions to the client - so the client and blockchain can know it's you, but you never expose private keys.

[Braijan]

Thanks, I think lesson 8 may clear some things up for me. I suppose where I was confused is how to deploy a contract for a client with the proper credentials in place without knowing their private key.