openstack-manuals/doc/common/section_nova_cli_sshkeys.xml
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bug: #1220407

Change-Id: Id5ffc774b966ba7b9a591743a877aa10ab3094c7
author: diane fleming
2013-09-08 15:15:50 -07:00

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"
xml:id="nova_cli_keygen"><title>Add keypair</title>
<para>Create at least one keypair for each project. If you have
generated a keypair with an external tool, you can import it into
OpenStack. The keypair can be used for multiple instances that
belong to a project.</para>
<procedure>
<title>To add a keypair</title>
<step>
<title>Create a key</title>
<para>To create a <literal>mykey</literal> key that you can
associate with instances, run the following command:</para>
<screen>
<prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>nova keypair-add mykey > mykey.pem</userinput></screen>
<para>Save the <filename>mykey.pem</filename> file to a secure
location. It enables root access to any instances with which
the <literal>mykey</literal> key is associated.</para>
</step>
<step>
<title>Import a keypair</title>
<para>To import an existing public key,
<literal>mykey.pub</literal>, and associate it with the
<literal>mykey</literal> key, run the following
command:</para>
<screen>
<prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>nova keypair-add --pub-key mykey.pub mykey</userinput></screen>
<para>You must have the matching private key to access instances
that are associated with this key.</para>
</step>
</procedure>
</section>