Updated on 2026-06-09 GMT+08:00

Updating SSH Key Pair Description

Function

This API is used to update the SSH key pair description.

Calling Method

For details, see Calling APIs.

Authorization Information

Each account has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the required permissions.

  • If you are using role/policy-based authorization, see Permissions Policies and Supported Actions for details on the required permissions.
  • If you are using identity policy-based authorization, the following identity policy-based permissions are required.

    Action

    Access Level

    Resource Type (*: required)

    Condition Key

    Alias

    Dependencies

    kps:SSHKeyPair:update

    Write

    SSHKeyPair *

    -

    kps:domainKeypairs:update

    -

URI

PUT /v3/{project_id}/keypairs/{keypair_name}

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

keypair_name

Yes

String

Definition

Key pair name

Constraints

Key pair name. The value can contain at most 255 characters. Only letters, digits, underscores (_), and hyphens (-) are allowed.

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

Request Parameters

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

UpdateKeypairDescriptionReq object

Definition

Message body for updating the SSH key pair description

Constraints

N/A

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

Table 4 UpdateKeypairDescriptionReq

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

description

Yes

String

Definition

Description

Constraints

N/A

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

OK

None

Example Requests

{
  "keypair" : {
    "description" : "description"
  }
}

Example Responses

None

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

200

OK

Error Codes

See Error Codes.