OpenStack expects the client tools to use 2 kinds of credentials. One set of credentials are called Access Key and Secret Key that all clients would need to use to make any requests to the Cloud Controller. Each user registered on the web interface has this set created for him. You can download it from the web interface as mentioned in the chapter on "Web Interface".
You will also need to generate a keypair consisting of private key/public key to be able to launch instances on Eucalyptus. These keys are injected into the instances to make password-less SSH access to the instance possible. This depends on the way the necessary tools are bundled into the images. Please refer to the chapter on Image Management for more details.
Keypairs can also be generated using the following commands.
cd ~/creds euca-add-keypair mykey > mykey.priv chmod 600 mykey.priv
This creates a new keypair called mykey. The private key mykey.priv is saved locally which can be used to connect to an instance launched with mykey as the keypair. euca-describe-keypairs command to list the available keypairs.
The output should like this:
uecadmin@client1:~$ euca-describe-keypairs KEYPAIR mykey f7:ac:8e:f5:05:19:2b:31:28:8c:9b:d7:b8:07:0c:3c:b6:34:8f:79 KEYPAIR helloworld 12:96:b3:21:34:8d:6a:3f:92:2e:2b:70:23:ff:7f:51:b5:b7:ad:37 KEYPAIR ubuntu f6:af:9a:59:65:35:32:c4:3a:c4:62:0e:e1:44:0f:71:29:03:2d:91 KEYPAIR lucid 74:04:70:33:ed:57:7a:30:36:1f:ca:c6:ec:d5:4f:10:34:1a:52:51 KEYPAIR karmic 01:f9:aa:5f:4d:20:e2:53:d1:29:d0:0f:e2:f3:8c:21:91:70:7e:c8
To delete an existing keypair:
euca-delete-keypair helloworld
The above tasks can be achieved using Hybridfox from the "Keypairs" tab.
