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HSS Custom Policies

Custom policies can be created to supplement the system-defined policies of HSS. For details about the actions supported by custom policies, see Actions.

You can create custom policies in either of the following ways:
  • Visual editor: Select cloud services, actions, resources, and request conditions. This does not require knowledge of policy syntax.
  • JSON: Edit JSON policies from scratch or based on an existing policy.

For details, see Creating a Custom Policy. The following section contains examples of common HSS custom policies.

Example Custom Policies

  • Example 1: Allowing users to query the protected server list 
    {
        "Version": "1.1",
        "Statement": [
                {
                        "Effect": "Allow",
                        "Action": [
                                "hss:hosts:list"
                                                       ]
                }
        ]
}
  • Example 2: Denying agent uninstallation

    A deny policy must be used together with other policies. If the permissions assigned to a user contain both "Allow" and "Deny", the "Deny" permissions take precedence over the "Allow" permissions.

    The following method can be used if you need to assign permissions of the HSS Administrator policy to a user but also forbid the user from deleting key pairs (hss:agent:uninstall). Create a custom policy with the action to delete key pairs, set its Effect to Deny, and assign both this and the HSS Administrator policies to the group the user belongs to. Then the user can perform all operations on HSS except uninstalling it. The following is an example policy that denies agent uninstallation.

    {
        "Version": "1.1",
        "Statement": [
                {
                        "Effect": "Deny",
                        "Action": [
                                "hss:agent:uninstall"                                
                        ]
                },
        ]
}
  • Multi-action policy

    A custom policy can contain the actions of multiple services that are of the project-level type. The following is an example policy containing actions of multiple services:

    {
        "Version": "1.1",
        "Statement": [
                {
                        "Effect": "Allow",
                        "Action": [
                                "hss:hosts:list"
                        ]
                },
               {
                        "Effect": "Allow",
                        "Action": [
                                "hss:hosts:switchVersion",
                                "hss:hosts:manualDetect",
                                "hss:manualDetectStatus:get"
                        ]
                }
        ]
}
Parent topic: Permissions Management