Request Parameters Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

UploadSSHPublicKey

Uploads an SSH public key and associates it with the specified IAM user.

The SSH public key uploaded by this operation can be used only for authenticating the associated IAM user to an CodeCommit repository. For more information about using SSH keys to authenticate to an CodeCommit repository, see Set up CodeCommit for SSH connections in the CodeCommit User Guide.

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

SSHPublicKeyBody

The SSH public key. The public key must be encoded in ssh-rsa format or PEM format. The minimum bit-length of the public key is 2048 bits. For example, you can generate a 2048-bit key, and the resulting PEM file is 1679 bytes long.

The regex pattern used to validate this parameter is a string of characters consisting of the following:

Any printable ASCII character ranging from the space character (\u0020) through the end of the ASCII character range
The printable characters in the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement character set (through \u00FF)
The special characters tab (\u0009), line feed (\u000A), and carriage return (\u000D)

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 16384.

Pattern: [\u0009\u000A\u000D\u0020-\u00FF]+

Required: Yes

UserName

The name of the IAM user to associate the SSH public key with.

This parameter allows (through its regex pattern) a string of characters consisting of upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters with no spaces. You can also include any of the following characters: _+=,.@-

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 64.

Pattern: [\w+=,.@-]+

Required: Yes

Response Elements

The following element is returned by the service.

SSHPublicKey

Contains information about the SSH public key.

Type: SSHPublicKey object

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

DuplicateSSHPublicKey

The request was rejected because the SSH public key is already associated with the specified IAM user.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidPublicKey

The request was rejected because the public key is malformed or otherwise invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

LimitExceeded

The request was rejected because it attempted to create resources beyond the current AWS account limits. The error message describes the limit exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 409

NoSuchEntity

The request was rejected because it referenced a resource entity that does not exist. The error message describes the resource.

HTTP Status Code: 404

UnrecognizedPublicKeyEncoding

The request was rejected because the public key encoding format is unsupported or unrecognized.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of UploadSSHPublicKey.

Sample Request


https://iam.amazonaws.com/?Action=UploadSSHPublicKey
&SSHPublicKeyBody=ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQCy75ak72GGaoZNy0cjUERIn
+mrga0C30kmkiwOeN4H6YtvCdUksVppjPOhm485WFRzvIcxaMEuZ9ISAkp8AfefybxH0PdQWhELSu0p
HaMnADAU7dOn3CCerO8+0sycbu4ES4P+cdK1qet3ptsG/zeQNLLmOK5zjIRa1MAS3KnwLwHEVPEe4JD
+xfghuO0nwzUgpneGNwk7m7qihYLFnNCFdeU8OeIr9Fmc75g5olHm6ZoC/bccAHurHkfcDpanJTLNfL
R5Oj14CZSsRP4kNdm+oe5+IPM78w4J9v4pXU4mizYDE21G4gUDVxOrs0X66lMihX6ArVgmEK+NK5GQg
n9z jane@example.com
&UserName=Jane
&Version=2010-05-08
&AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response


<UploadSSHPublicKeyResponse xmlns="https://iam.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-05-08/">
  <UploadSSHPublicKeyResult>
    <PublicKey>
      <UploadDate>2015-06-05T20:56:46.012Z</UploadDate>
      <Fingerprint>7a:1d:ea:9e:b0:80:ac:f8:ec:d8:dc:e6:a7:2c:fc:51</Fingerprint>
      <UserName>Jane</UserName>
      <SSHPublicKeyId>APKAEIVFHP46CEXAMPLE</SSHPublicKeyId>
      <Status>Active</Status>
      <SSHPublicKeyBody>
        ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQCy75ak72GGaoZNy0cjUERIn+mrga0C30k
        mkiwOeN4H6YtvCdUksVppjPOhm485WFRzvIcxaMEuZ9ISAkp8AfefybxH0PdQWhELSu0pHa
        MnADAU7dOn3CCerO8+0sycbu4ES4P+cdK1qet3ptsG/zeQNLLmOK5zjIRa1MAS3KnwLwHEV
        PEe4JD+xfghuO0nwzUgpneGNwk7m7qihYLFnNCFdeU8OeIr9Fmc75g5olHm6ZoC/bccAHur
        HkfcDpanJTLNfLR5Oj14CZSsRP4kNdm+oe5+IPM78w4J9v4pXU4mizYDE21G4gUDVxOrs0X
        66lMihX6ArVgmEK+NK5GQgn9z jane@example.com
      </SSHPublicKeyBody>
    </PublicKey>
  </UploadSSHPublicKeyResult>
  <ResponseMetadata>
    <RequestId>3da97a2f-f369-11e4-97ab-c53b2EXAMPLE</RequestId>
  </ResponseMetadata>
</UploadSSHPublicKeyResponse>