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Elastic Compute Service:ImportKeyPair

Last Updated:Sep 27, 2024

Imports the public key of a Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA)-encrypted key pair that is generated by a third-party tool. After the key pair is imported, Alibaba Cloud stores the public key. You must securely lock away the private key.

Operation description

Take note of the following items:

Debugging

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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.
OperationAccess levelResource typeCondition keyAssociated operation
ecs:ImportKeyPaircreate
  • All Resources
    *
    none
none

Request parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescriptionExample
RegionIdstringYes

The region ID. You can call the DescribeRegions operation to query the most recent region list.

cn-hangzhou
KeyPairNamestringYes

The name of the key pair. The name must be unique. It must be 2 to 128 characters in length. It must start with a letter and cannot start with http:// or https://. It can contain letters, digits, colons (:), underscores (_), and hyphens (-).

testKeyPairName
PublicKeyBodystringYes

The public key of the key pair.

ABC1234567
ResourceGroupIdstringNo

The ID of the enterprise resource group to which the SSH key pair belongs.

rg-bp67acfmxazb4p****
Tagarray<object>No

The tags to add to the key pair.

objectNo

The tag to add to the key pair.

KeystringNo

The key of tag N to add to the key pair. Valid values of N: 1 to 20. The tag key cannot be an empty string. The tag key can be up to 128 characters in length and cannot contain http:// or https://. The tag key cannot start with acs: or aliyun.

TestKey
ValuestringNo

The value of tag N to add to the key pair. Valid values of N: 1 to 20. The tag value can be an empty string. The tag value can be up to 128 characters in length and cannot contain http:// or https://. The tag value cannot start with acs:.

TestValue

Response parameters

ParameterTypeDescriptionExample
object
RequestIdstring

The request ID.

473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E
KeyPairNamestring

The name of the key pair.

testKeyPairName
KeyPairFingerPrintstring

The fingerprint of the key pair. The MD5 message-digest algorithm is used based on the public key fingerprint format defined in RFC 4716.

89:f0:ba:62:ac:b8:aa:e1:61:5e:fd:81:69:86:6d:6b:f0:c0:5a:**

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "RequestId": "473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E",
  "KeyPairName": "testKeyPairName",
  "KeyPairFingerPrint": "89:f0:ba:62:ac:b8:aa:e1:61:5e:fd:81:69:86:6d:6b:f0:c0:5a:**"
}

Error codes

HTTP status codeError codeError messageDescription
400InvalidKeyPairName.MalformedSpecified Key Pair name is not valid.-
400InvalidPublicKeyBody.MalformedThe PublicKeyBody format is not supported.The public key format is not supported.
400MissingParameterThe input parameter "PublicKeyBody" that is mandatory for processing this request is not supplied.-
400KeyPair.AlreadyExistThe key pair already exist.A key pair with the same name already exists. Key pair names must be unique.
403QuotaExceed.KeyPairThe key pair quota exceeds.The maximum number of key pairs has been reached.
404InvalidResourceGroup.NotFoundThe ResourceGroup provided does not exist in our records.The specified resource group does not exist.
500InternalErrorThe request processing has failed due to some unknown error.An internal error has occurred. Try again later.

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.

Change history

Change timeSummary of changesOperation
2023-07-17The Error code has changedView Change Details