Deletes one or more SSH key pairs.
Operation description
When you call this operation, take note of the following items:
- After an SSH key pair is deleted, you cannot query the SSH key pair by calling the DescribeKeyPairs operation.
- If an SSH key pair is bound to one or more Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances, the SSH key pair cannot be deleted.
Debugging
Authorization information
The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action
policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:
- Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
- Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
- Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
- The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
- If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level,
All Resources
is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
- Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
- Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.
Operation | Access level | Resource type | Condition key | Associated operation |
---|---|---|---|---|
ecs:DeleteKeyPairs | delete |
|
| none |
Request parameters
Parameter | Type | Required | Description | Example |
---|---|---|---|---|
RegionId | string | Yes | The ID of the region. You can call the DescribeRegions operation to query the most recent list of regions. | cn-hangzhou |
KeyPairNames | string | Yes | The names of SSH key pairs. The value can be a JSON array that consists of up to 100 SSH key pair names. Separate the names with commas (,). Note
Before you delete an SSH key pair, you can call the DescribeKeyPairs operation to query existing key pairs.
| ["skp-bp67acfmxazb41****", "skp-bp67acfmxazb42****", … "skp-bp67acfmxazb4p3***"] |
Response parameters
Examples
Sample success responses
JSON
format
{
"RequestId": "473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E"
}
Error codes
HTTP status code | Error code | Error message | Description |
---|---|---|---|
400 | MissingParameter | The input parameter "KeyPairNames" that is mandatory for processing this request is not supplied. | - |
400 | InvalidKeyPairNames.ValueNotSupported | The specified parameter "KeyPairNames" is not valid. | - |
400 | InvalidParameter.KeypairAlreadyAttachedInstance | The specified parameter "KeyPairNames" attached to instances can not be deleted. | - |
403 | InstanceKeyPairLimitExceeded | Exceeding the allowed amount of instance which will be deleted. | The number of specified key pairs exceeds the upper limit. |
For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.
Change history
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