- What's New
- Function Overview
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User Guide
- Key Management Service
- Cloud Secret Management Service
- Key Pair Service
- Dedicated HSM
- Auditing Logs
- Permission Control
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API Reference
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- Permissions Policies and Supported Actions
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KMS Related
- What Is Key Management Service?
- What Is a Customer Master Key?
- What Is a Default Key?
- What Are the Differences Between a Custom Key and a Default Key?
- What Is a Data Encryption Key?
- Why Cannot I Delete a CMK Immediately?
- Which Cloud Services Can Use KMS for Encryption?
- How Do Huawei Cloud Services Use KMS to Encrypt Data?
- What Are the Benefits of Envelope Encryption?
- Is There a Limit on the Number of Custom Keys That I Can Create on KMS?
- Can I Export a CMK from KMS?
- Can I Decrypt My Data if I Permanently Delete My Custom Key?
- How Do I Use the Online Tool to Encrypt or Decrypt Small Volumes of Data?
- Can I Update CMKs Created by KMS-Generated Key Materials?
- How Are Default Keys Generated?
- What Should I Do If I Do Not Have the Permissions to Perform Operations on KMS?
- Why Can't I Wrap Asymmetric Keys by Using -id-aes256-wrap-pad in OpenSSL?
- Key Algorithms Supported by KMS
- What Should I Do If KMS Failed to Be Requested and Error Code 401 Is Displayed?
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KPS Related
- How Do I Create a Key Pair?
- What Are a Private Key Pair and an Account Key Pair?
- How Do I Handle an Import Failure of a Key Pair Created Using PuTTYgen?
- What Should I Do When I Fail to Import a Key Pair Using Internet Explorer 9?
- How Do I Log In to a Linux ECS with a Private Key?
- How Do I Use a Private Key to Obtain the Password to Log In to a Windows ECS?
- How Do I Handle the Failure in Binding a Key Pair?
- How Do I Handle the Failure in Replacing a Key Pair?
- How Do I Handle the Failure in Resetting a Key Pair?
- How Do I Handle the Failure in Unbinding a Key Pair?
- Do I Need to Restart Servers After Replacing Its Key Pair?
- How Do I Enable the Password Login Mode for an ECS?
- How Do I Handle the Failure in Logging In to ECS After Unbinding the Key Pair?
- What Should I Do If My Private Key Is Lost?
- How Do I Convert the Format of a Private Key File?
- Can I Change the Key Pair of a Server?
- Can a Key Pair Be Shared by Multiple Users?
- How Do I Obtain the Public or Private Key File of a Key Pair?
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Dedicated HSM Related
- What Is Dedicated HSM?
- How Does Dedicated HSM Ensure the Security for Key Generation?
- Do Equipment Room Personnel Has the Super Administrator Role to Steal Information by Using a Privileged UKey?
- What HSMs Are Used for Dedicated HSM?
- What APIs Does Dedicated HSM Support?
- How Do I Enable Public Access to a Dedicated HSM Instance?
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Introduction
This chapter describes fine-grained permissions management for your DEW. If your Huawei Cloud account does not need individual IAM users, you may skip over this chapter.
By default, new IAM users do not have permissions assigned. You need to add a user to one or more groups, and attach permissions policies or roles to these groups. Users inherit permissions from the groups to which they are added and can perform specified operations on cloud services based on the permissions.
Permissions are classified into roles and policies based on the authorization granularity. Roles are a type of coarse-grained authorization mechanism that defines permissions related to user responsibilities. Policies define API-based permissions for operations on specific resources under certain conditions, allowing for more fine-grained, secure access control of cloud resources.
Policy-based authorization is useful if you want to allow or deny the access to an API.
An account has all of the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must have the required permissions specifically assigned. The permissions required for calling an API are determined by the actions supported by the API. Only users who have been granted permissions allowing the actions can call the API successfully. For example, if an IAM user wants to use an API to query the SSH keys of account key pairs, the user must be granted permissions that allow the kps:domainKeypairs:list action.
Supported Actions
DEW provides system-defined policies that can be directly used in IAM. You can also create custom policies and use them to supplement system-defined policies, implementing more refined access control. Operations supported by policies are specific to APIs. The following are common concepts related to policies:
- Permission: A statement in a policy that allows or denies certain operations.
- APIs: REST APIs that can be called in a custom policy.
- Actions: Added to a custom policy to control permissions for specific operations.
- Dependent actions: When assigning an action to users, you also need to assign dependent permissions for that action to take effect.
- IAM projects or enterprise project: Scope of users a permission is granted to. Policies that contain actions supporting both IAM and enterprise projects can be assigned to user groups and take effect in both IAM and Enterprise Management. Policies that only contain actions supporting IAM projects can be assigned to user groups and only take effect in IAM. Such policies will not take effect if they are assigned to user groups in Enterprise Project.
DEW supports the following actions that can be defined in custom policies:
- Manage keys, such as creating keys, querying keys, and creating grants.
- Manage key pairs, such as creating, querying, and deleting key pairs.
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