Exporting a private key

Export the private key of a specified key pair.

For details, see Calling APIs.

POST /v3/{project_id}/keypairs/private-key/export

**Table 1** Path Parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
project_id	Yes	String	Project ID

**Table 2** Request header parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	Yes	String	User token. Can be obtained by calling the IAM API for obtaining the user token (the value of X-Subject-Token in the response header).

**Table 3** Request body parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
keypair	Yes	KeypairBean object	Information about the key pair whose private key is to be exported

**Table 4** KeypairBean
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
name	Yes	String	Name of the key pair.

Status code: 200

**Table 5** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
keypair	ExportPrivateKeyKeypairBean object	Information about the exported private key

**Table 6** ExportPrivateKeyKeypairBean
Parameter	Type	Description
name	String	SSH key pair name.
private_key	String	Private key of the SSH key pair

Status code: 400

**Table 7** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
error_code	String	Error Codes
error_msg	String	Description

{
  "keypair" : {
    "name" : "demo2"
  }
}

Status code: 200

Request succeeded.

{
  "keypair" : {
    "name" : "demo2",
    "private_key" : "-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----..."
  }
}

Status code: 400

Error response

{
  "error_code" : "KPS.XXX",
  "error_msg" : "XXX"
}

Status Code	Description
200	Request succeeded.
400	Error response

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