org.jclouds.aws.ec2.services
Interface AWSKeyPairClient

All Superinterfaces:

KeyPairClient

public interface AWSKeyPairClient
extends KeyPairClient

Author:

Adrian Cole

Method Summary

KeyPair

importKeyPairInRegion(String region, String keyName, String publicKeyMaterial) Imports the public key from an RSA key pair that you created with a third-party tool.

Methods inherited from interface org.jclouds.ec2.services.KeyPairClient

createKeyPairInRegion, deleteKeyPairInRegion, describeKeyPairsInRegion

Method Detail

importKeyPairInRegion

KeyPair importKeyPairInRegion(@Nullable
                              String region,
                              String keyName,
                              String publicKeyMaterial)

Imports the public key from an RSA key pair that you created with a third-party tool. Compare this with CreateKeyPair, in which AWS creates the key pair and gives the keys to you (AWS keeps a copy of the public key). With ImportKeyPair, you create the key pair and give AWS just the public key. The private key is never transferred between you and AWS.

You can easily create an RSA key pair on Windows and Linux using the ssh-keygen command line tool (provided with the standard OpenSSH installation). Standard library support for RSA key pair creation is also available in Java, Ruby, Python, and many other programming languages.

Supported Formats

• OpenSSH public key format (e.g., the format in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys)
• Base64 encoded DER format
• SSH public key file format as specified in RFC4716

DSA keys are not supported. Make sure your key generator is set up to create RSA keys.

Supported lengths: 1024, 2048, and 4096.

Parameters:

region - region to import the key into

keyName - A unique name for the key pair. Accepts alphanumeric characters, spaces, dashes, and underscores.

publicKeyMaterial - The public key

Returns:

imported key including fingerprint