I might have found the answer? I can't tell. In jclouds <https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/tree/c6986efda62de0730106d42e23da25972feece33>/apis <https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/tree/c6986efda62de0730106d42e23da25972feece33/apis>/ec2 <https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/tree/c6986efda62de0730106d42e23da25972feece33/apis/ec2>/src <https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/tree/c6986efda62de0730106d42e23da25972feece33/apis/ec2/src>/main <https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/tree/c6986efda62de0730106d42e23da25972feece33/apis/ec2/src/main>/java <https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/tree/c6986efda62de0730106d42e23da25972feece33/apis/ec2/src/main/java>/org <https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/tree/c6986efda62de0730106d42e23da25972feece33/apis/ec2/src/main/java/org>/jclouds <https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/tree/c6986efda62de0730106d42e23da25972feece33/apis/ec2/src/main/java/org/jclouds>/ec2 <https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/tree/c6986efda62de0730106d42e23da25972feece33/apis/ec2/src/main/java/org/jclouds/ec2>/compute <https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/tree/c6986efda62de0730106d42e23da25972feece33/apis/ec2/src/main/java/org/jclouds/ec2/compute>/functions <https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/tree/c6986efda62de0730106d42e23da25972feece33/apis/ec2/src/main/java/org/jclouds/ec2/compute/functions>/*CreateUniqueKeyPair.java* I found the line, which looks like jclouds doesn't generate it's own keys, instead relying on EC2API: keyPair = ec2Api.getKeyPairApi().get().createKeyPairInRegion(region, keyName);
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Johanna Jones <johanna.jone...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks for that link! So the key pair it creates for each VM will be the > same since my own ssh key is unchanging? Amazon is reporting each key pair > has it's own fingerprint to me. > > So where is the code to generate the key, in the otherwise case? The > closest I found was a link in the docs to > http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/ApiReference-query-Create > *Key*Pair.html, suggesting that Amazon's API is used. > > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Andrew Phillips <andr...@apache.org>wrote: > >> So to start out does jclouds generates a key or it use amazon's API to >>> create one? Then it uses that key just once to authorize myself, and from >>> then on I just use my personal user and ssh key that was authorized? >>> >> >> Most of this should be described in the Javadocs for AdminAccess [1]. >> Does that make things any clearer? >> >> As regards your key question: jclouds will create a key pair in EC2 >> using, if it can load them, your keys. Otherwise, it will *generate* a key >> pair. >> >> ap >> >> [1] http://javadocs.jclouds.**cloudbees.net/org/jclouds/** >> scriptbuilder/statements/**login/AdminAccess.html<http://javadocs.jclouds.cloudbees.net/org/jclouds/scriptbuilder/statements/login/AdminAccess.html> >> > >