No documentation on viewing a generated private keypair

[James]

Currently, under the keypair create, there is no documentation on how to view 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.

[Steve Martinelli (stevemar)]

Automatically unassigning due to inactivity.

[Anne Gentle (annegentle)]

Right now, there's an if/else so no argument is passed; instead, if the user doesn't indicate --public-key, then a private key is created. Is this how we want it to work, or should a private-key argument be added?

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/390220
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/python-openstackclient/commit/?id=5055074db00f75285034c056b631d85f42cd9086
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 5055074db00f75285034c056b631d85f42cd9086
Author: Anne Gentle <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Oct 24 10:55:10 2016 +0200

    Adds information about private key generation for instance access

    - Also updated the help text in the command itself.

    Change-Id: Ib3d4f94ef415a3f12024d0d7c000d2de20de001b
    Partial-Bug: 1549410

[Rui Chen (kiwik-chenrui)]

I like the idea about "--private-key" option to save the private key when we create keypair, currently we use I/O redirection command "openstack keypair create xxx > my_private_key.pem" to do it, but if we use interactive mode, it don't work. The "--private-key" option can help us to save private key to a file directly, not any more copy output string and paste it.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/438352

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/438352
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/python-openstackclient/commit/?id=dee22d8faa0c8a0da1d6ff62c0997c2cc770b759
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit dee22d8faa0c8a0da1d6ff62c0997c2cc770b759
Author: Rui Chen <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Feb 27 14:35:05 2017 +0800

    Add "--private-key" option for "keypair create"

    Aim to specify the private key file to save when keypair
    is created. That is a convenient way to save private key
    in OSC interactive mode, avoid to copy CLI output, then
    paste it into file.

    Change-Id: I119d2f2a3323d17ecbe3de4e27f35e1ceef6e0a5
    Closes-Bug: #1549410

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

This issue was fixed in the openstack/python-openstackclient 3.10.0 release.