Melanie, Thanks a lot for your help. I tried the command *" ssh-keygen -q -l -f id_rsa.pub" (id_rsa.pub was generated by ssh-keygen before)* It ran without throwing any error. The output was: *the fingerprint id_rsa.pub (RSA)* On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Melanie Witt <melwitt at yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > Looking at the source for handling of the public key ( > https://github.com/openstack/**nova/blob/stable/essex/nova/** > api/openstack/compute/contrib/**keypairs.py#L108<https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/stable/essex/nova/api/openstack/compute/contrib/keypairs.py#L108>), > it's failing at generating the fingerprint for your key. Then if you look > at the code for that (https://github.com/openstack/** > nova/blob/stable/essex/nova/**crypto.py#L119<https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/stable/essex/nova/crypto.py#L119>) > you see the underlying command "ssh-keygen -q -l -f <public key file>". > Maybe you can get to the root of the problem with your key by running that > command manually. > > Melanie > > > On 10/22/12 2:42 PM, Pavan Kulkarni wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >> >> I am trying to add a ssh keypair in Openstack Essex on RHEL. >> I have id_rsa.pub which i use to create the keypair >> >> But when i run the command >> *nova keypair-add --pub_key id_rsa.pub mykey* >> *I get an error as follows* >> *"ERROR: KeyPair data is invalid (HTTP 400)"* >> * >> * >> >> I recreated the public key etc, but did'nt help >> Any idea regarding this error is appreciated.Thanks >> >> >> -- >> >> --With Regards >> Pavan Kulkarni >> >> > -- --With Regards Pavan Kulkarni -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20121022/e7af6f92/attachment.html>