No documentation on viewing a generated private keypair

[James]

http://docs.openstack.org/developer/python-novaclient/api/novaclient.v1_1.keypairs.html

Currently, under the keypair create class, there is no documentation on how to view/download the private key pair necessary to log into instances.

I recommend showing that there is an private-key option and that the file can be saved using a --private-key <file> option as well otherwise the private key can never be recovered.

        newkey = nt.keypairs.create(<value>)
        privKey = newkey.private_key

[melanie witt (melwitt)]

It looks like there are two issues here:

1. There's no mention in the Python API docs on how to get the private key that was generated.

2. There's no CLI option for saving the private key to a file.

We'll use this bug to track the former. For the latter, you can just propose a patch that adds the option. At most, you might be requested to create a blueprint for it, for tracking.

[James (james-o-benson)]

Thank you Melanie, I can submit a doc fix on how to get the private key in a code example... I had to do that for a project I'm doing anyway. Regarding the CLI option, I'll submit a blueprint plan for it. Do you recommend submitting it as a blueprint as well in the openstackclient api as well?