Detaches an SSH key pair from one or more of your Linux instances.

Description

When you call this interface, consider the following:

  • After you detach an SSH key pair, restart the instance (RebootInstance) for the operation to take effect.

  • After the key pair is detached, the user name and password authentication method is used by default.

Request parameters

Name Type Required Description
Action String Yes The name of this interface. Value: DetachKeyPair
RegionId String Yes The ID of the region to which your SSH key pair belongs. For more information, call DescribeRegions to obtain the latest region list.
KeyPairName String Yes The names of key pairs.
InstanceIds String No The instance ID. The instance ID. The value can contain arrays of up to 50 instance IDs. The IDs are displayed in the format of ["i-xxxxxxxxx", "i-yyyyyyyyy", … "i-zzzzzzzzz"] and separated by commas (,).

Response parameters

All are common parameters. See Common parameters.

Examples

Request example 
https://ecs.aliyuncs.com/?Action=DetachKeyPair
&RegionId=cn-qingdao
&InstanceIds=["i-xxxxxxx", "i-yyyyyyy"]
&KeyPairName=test
&<Common Request Parameters>
Response example

XML format 

<DetachKeyPairResponse>
    <RequestId>473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E</RequestId>
</DetachKeyPairResponse>
JSON format 
{
    "RequestId": "473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E"
}

Error codes

Error codes specific to this interface are as follows. For more error codes, see the API error center.

Error code Error message HTTP status code  Note
MissingParameter The input parameter “RegionId” that is mandatory for processing this request is not supplied. 400 You must specify the parameter RegionId.  Or you are not authorized to use the resource in the specified region.
DependencyViolation.WindowsInstance The instance creating is windows, cannot use ssh key pair to login. 403 SSH key pairs are not supported for Windows instances.
InvalidKeyPairName.NotFound The specified KeyPairName does not exist. 404 The specified KeyPairName does not exist.
InvalidRegionId.NotFound The specified RegionId does not exist. 404 The specified RegionId does not exist.