Exporting a private key_Key Pair Management_Key Pair Management APIs_API_API Reference

This API is used to 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	Definition Project ID. For details, see Obtaining a Project ID. Constraints N/A Range The value returned by the IAM API is used, which contains 32 characters. Default Value N/A

**Table 2** Request header parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	Yes	String	Definition User token. It can be obtained by calling the IAM API. The value of X-Subject-Token in the response header is the user token. Constraints N/A Range Obtain the value by calling the IAM API for obtaining the user token. Default Value N/A

**Table 3** Request body parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
keypair	Yes	KeypairBean object	Definition Information about the key pair whose private key is to be exported Constraints N/A Range N/A Default Value N/A

**Table 4** KeypairBean
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
name	Yes	String	Definition SSH key pair name Constraints N/A Range N/A Default Value N/A

Status code: 200

**Table 5** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
keypair	ExportPrivateKeyKeypairBean object	Definition Information about the exported private key Range N/A

**Table 6** ExportPrivateKeyKeypairBean
Parameter	Type	Description
name	String	Definition SSH key pair name Range N/A
private_key	String	Definition Private key of the SSH key pair Range N/A

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

Status code: 200

Request succeeded.

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

Status Code	Description
200	Request succeeded.

Exporting a private key