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1. Log in to the dashboard.

2. Select the appropriate project from the drop down menu at the top left.

3. On the Project tab, open the Compute tab.

4. Click the Key Pairs tab, which shows the key pairs that are available for this project.

5. Click Create Key Pair.

6. In the Create Key Pair dialog box, enter a name for your key pair, and click Create Key Pair.

7. The private key will be downloaded automatically.

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    This file should be stored in a safe location.

It is recommended to insert the newly generated

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key

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in a text file, without extension,

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 conventionally called id_rsa. The file

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should be placed in the ".ssh" folder, which should be located in the "Users \ nameUser \ .ssh" path.

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If Moreover, if you want to change the permissions of the file, so that only you can read and write to the file, you can use the Linux chmod command (in this case chmod 600 PrivateKey.pem).

Import a key pair

This procedure is an alternative to the one presented in the previous paragraph: you can generate a Key Pair on OpenStack and save the Private Key locally or, conversely, generate it locally and save the public part on OpenStack. To do this, you need to generate on the local machine, which you will use to connect via ssh, the key pair, using the command:

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