How to generate an API Signing Key?
You can use the following OpenSSL commands to generate the key pair in the required PEM format. If you're using Windows, you'll need to install Git Bash for Windows and run the commands with that tool.
1. Create a directory
For your convenience, you can create a .oci directory to store the credentials:
mkdir ~/.oci
2. Generate private key
You can use the following command to generate the private key with no passphrase.
openssl genrsa -out ~/.oci/oci_api_key.pem 2048
For security reasons, it is critical to ensure that only you can read/write the private key file. To enable the same, use the following command:
chmod go-rwx ~/.oci/oci_api_key.pem
3. Generate public key:
openssl rsa -pubout -in ~/.oci/oci_api_key.pem -out ~/.oci/oci_api_key_public.pem
4. Upload public key to IAM
You can copy the contents of the public key to the clipboard using pbcopy, xclip or a similar tool (you'll need to paste the value into the console later). For example:
cat ~/.oci/oci_api_key_public.pem | pbcopy
Your API requests will be signed with your private key and Oracle will use public key to verify the authenticity of your request. The public key must be uploaded to the IAM.
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