<p dir="ltr">I&#39;m not sure what method you&#39;re following, however, if the key variable can&#39;t be grabbed, generate the key and do everything. That&#39;s the way. At the end, it&#39;s on you whether you want to maintain the intermediate creations (key, sg, et cetera) or remove. Volume is the end product. Minimum hassle post the correct end product is something I believe in achieving.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 9, 2016 17:43, &quot;Ruiliang Hong&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:rhong1@stevens.edu">rhong1@stevens.edu</a>&gt; wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">What about the private keys inside the /.ssh/config file? If the environment variable is empty, should we get the key from /.ssh/config ?</div><div class="elided-text"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Avineshwar Singh <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:asingh16@stevens.edu" target="_blank">asingh16@stevens.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">An environment variable can point to one file.</p><div><div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 9, 2016 15:55, &quot;Ruiliang Hong&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:rhong1@stevens.edu" target="_blank">rhong1@stevens.edu</a>&gt; wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">What if there are multiple private keys in config file? How do we specify the exact key for creating ec2 instance?<div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Avineshwar Singh <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:asingh16@stevens.edu" target="_blank">asingh16@stevens.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Create when empty else grab and use (however,  it has to be in a standard format to which a user has to comply, like: ~/.ssh/anykeyname)</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Apr 9, 2016 15:33, &quot;Ruiliang Hong&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:rhong1@stevens.edu" target="_blank">rhong1@stevens.edu</a>&gt; wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>How can we identify the private key in the ~/.ssh/config file? Or should we create a new key pair when <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">EC2_BACKUP_FLAGS_SSH is empty?</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div>Ruiliang</div></div>
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