Updated on 2025-10-16 GMT+08:00

Updating SSH Key Pair Description

Function

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

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

Project ID

keypair_name

Yes

String

Key pair name.

Request Parameters

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

UpdateKeypairDescriptionReq object

Message body for updating the SSH key pair description

Table 4 UpdateKeypairDescriptionReq

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

description

Yes

String

Description

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

OK

Status code: 400

Table 5 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error Codes

error_msg

String

Description

Example Requests

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

Example Responses

Status code: 400

Error response

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

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

200

OK

400

Error response

Error Codes

See Error Codes.