ec2-fingerprint-key

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2009-07-15

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ec2-fingerprint-key

Description

Retrieves console output for the specified instance.

Instance console output is buffered and posted shortly after instance boot, reboot, and termination. Amazon EC2 preserves the most recent 64 KB output which will be available for at least one hour after the most recent post.

Syntax

ec2-fingerprint-key keyfile

Options

Name Description Required

keyfile

The path to a file containing an unencrypted PEM-encoded PKCS#8 private key.

Type: String

Default: None

Example: mykey.pem

Yes

Output

The command returns a table that contains the following information:

  • A key fingerprint. This is formatted as a hash digest with each octet separated by a colon

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

Examples

Example Request

This example computes and displays the fingerprint for the mykey.pem private key.

PROMPT> ec2-fingerprint-key mykey.pem
1f:51:ae:28:bf:89:e9:d8:1f:25:5d:37:2d:7d:b8:ca:9f:f5:f1:6f

ec2-describe-keypairs
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