---
title: "Update"
method: PATCH
path: "/ssh_certificate_authorities/{id}"
tags: ["SSHCertificateAuthorities"]
---

# Update

`PATCH /ssh_certificate_authorities/{id}`

Update an SSH Certificate Authority

## Path parameters

- `id` string, required

## Headers

- `ngrok-version` integer, required

## Request body

- SSHCertificateAuthorityUpdate
  - `id` string — n/a
  - `description` string — human-readable description of this SSH Certificate Authority. optional, max 255 bytes.
  - `metadata` string — arbitrary user-defined machine-readable data of this SSH Certificate Authority. optional, max 4096 bytes.

## Response `200`

Update an SSH Certificate Authority

- SSHCertificateAuthority
  - `id` string — unique identifier for this SSH Certificate Authority
  - `uri` string — URI of the SSH Certificate Authority API resource
  - `created_at` string — timestamp when the SSH Certificate Authority API resource was created, RFC 3339 format
  - `description` string — human-readable description of this SSH Certificate Authority. optional, max 255 bytes.
  - `metadata` string — arbitrary user-defined machine-readable data of this SSH Certificate Authority. optional, max 4096 bytes.
  - `public_key` string — raw public key for this SSH Certificate Authority
  - `key_type` string — the type of private key for this SSH Certificate Authority

---

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