- What's New
- Function Overview
- Service Overview
- Getting Started
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User Guide
- Before You Start
- Logging In to Huawei Cloud
- IAM Users
- User Groups and Authorization
- Permissions Management
- Projects
- Agencies
- Security Settings
- Identity Providers
- Custom Identity Broker
- MFA Authentication and Virtual MFA Device
- Viewing IAM Operation Records
- Quotas
- Change History
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API Reference
- Before You Start
- API Overview
- Calling APIs
- Getting Started
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API
- Token Management
- Access Key Management
- Region Management
- Project Management
- Account Management
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IAM User Management
- Listing IAM Users
- Querying IAM User Details (Recommended)
- Querying IAM User Details
- Querying the User Groups to Which an IAM User Belongs
- Querying the IAM Users in a Group
- Creating an IAM User (Recommended)
- Creating an IAM User
- Changing the Login Password
- Modifying IAM User Information (Recommended)
- Modifying IAM User Information (Recommended)
- Modifying User Information
- Deleting an IAM User
- User Group Management
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Permissions Management
- Listing Permissions
- Querying Permission Details
- Querying Permissions Assignment Records
- Querying Permissions of a User Group for a Global Service Project
- Querying Permissions of a User Group for a Region-specific Project
- Granting Permissions to a User Group for a Global Service Project
- Granting Permissions to a User Group for a Region-specific Project
- Checking Whether a User Group Has Specified Permissions for a Global Service Project
- Checking Whether a User Group Has Specified Permissions for a Region-specific Project
- Querying All Permissions of a User Group
- Checking Whether a User Group Has Specified Permissions for All Projects
- Removing Specified Permissions of a User Group in All Projects
- Removing Permissions of a User Group for a Global Service Project
- Removing the Permissions of a User Group for a Region-specific Project
- Granting Permissions to a User Group for All Projects
- Custom Policy Management
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Agency Management
- Listing Agencies
- Querying Agency Details
- Creating an Agency
- Modifying an Agency
- Deleting an Agency
- Querying Permissions of an Agency for a Global Service Project
- Querying Permissions of an Agency for a Region-specific Project
- Granting Permissions to an Agency for a Global Service Project
- Granting Permissions to an Agency for a Region-specific Project
- Checking Whether an Agency Has Specified Permissions for a Global Service Project
- Checking Whether an Agency Has Specified Permissions for a Region-specific Project
- Removing Permissions of an Agency for a Global Service Project
- Removing Permissions of an Agency for a Region-specific Project
- Querying All Permissions of an Agency
- Granting Specified Permissions to an Agency for All Projects
- Checking Whether an Agency Has Specified Permissions
- Removing Specified Permissions of an Agency in All Projects
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Enterprise Project Management
- Querying User Groups Associated with an Enterprise Project
- Querying the Permissions of a User Group Associated with an Enterprise Project
- Granting Permissions to a User Group Associated with an Enterprise Project
- Removing Permissions of a User Group Associated with an Enterprise Project
- Querying the Enterprise Projects Associated with a User Group
- Querying the Enterprise Projects Directly Associated with an IAM User
- Querying Users Directly Associated with an Enterprise Project
- Querying Permissions of a User Directly Associated with an Enterprise Project
- Granting a User Permissions for an Enterprise Project
- Removing Permissions of a User Directly Associated with an Enterprise Project
- Granting Permissions to Agencies Associated with Specified Enterprise Projects
- Removing Permissions of Agencies Associated with Specified Enterprise Projects
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Security Settings
- Modifying the Operation Protection Policy
- Querying the Operation Protection Policy
- Modifying the Password Policy
- Querying the Password Policy of an Account
- Modifying the Login Authentication Policy
- Querying the Login Authentication Policy
- Modifying the ACL for Console Access
- Querying the ACL for Console Access
- Modifying the ACL for API Access
- Querying the ACL for API Access
- Querying MFA Device Information of IAM Users
- Querying the MFA Device Information of an IAM User
- Querying Login Protection Configurations of IAM Users
- Querying the Login Protection Configuration of an IAM User
- Modifying the Login Protection Configuration of an IAM User
- Binding a Virtual MFA Device
- Unbinding a Virtual MFA Device
- Creating a Virtual MFA Device
- Deleting a Virtual MFA Device
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Federated Identity Authentication Management
- Obtaining a Token Through Federated Identity Authentication
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Identity Providers
- Listing Identity Providers
- Querying Identity Provider Details
- Creating an Identity Provider
- Modifying a SAML Identity Provider
- Deleting a SAML Identity Provider
- Creating an OpenID Connect Identity Provider Configuration
- Modifying an OpenID Connect Identity Provider
- Querying an OpenID Connect Identity Provider
- Mappings
- Protocols
- Metadata
- Token
- Listing Accounts Accessible to Federated Users
- Custom Identity Brokers
- Version Information Management
- Services and Endpoints
- Out-of-Date APIs
- Permissions and Actions
- Appendix
- Change History
- SDK Reference
- Best Practices
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FAQs
- User Groups and Permissions Management
- IAM User Management
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Security Settings
- How Do I Enable Login Verification?
- How Do I Disable Login Verification?
- How Do I Change the Verification Method for Performing Critical Operations?
- How Do I Disable Operation Protection?
- How Do I Bind a Virtual MFA Device?
- How Do I Obtain a Virtual MFA Verification Code?
- How Do I Unbind or Remove a Virtual MFA Device?
- Why Does MFA Authentication Fail?
- Why Am I Not Getting the Verification Code?
- Why Is My Account Locked?
- Why Doesn't My API Access Control Policy Take Effect?
- Why Do I Still Need to Perform MFA During Login After Unbinding the Virtual MFA Device?
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Passwords and Credentials
- What Should I Do If I Forgot My Password?
- How Do I Change My Password?
- How Do I Obtain an Access Key (AK/SK)?
- What Should I Do If I Have Forgotten My Access Key (AK/SK)?
- What Are Temporary Security Credentials (AK/SK and Security Token)?
- How Do I Obtain a Token with Security Administrator Permissions?
- How Do I Obtain an Access Key (AK/SK) in the Cloud Alliance Regions?
- Project Management
- Agency Management
- Account Management
- Others
- Videos
Cross-Account Access Delegation and Resource Management
Company A and company B have created account A and account B, respectively. If account A wants to authorize account B to manage its resources, account A can create an agency in IAM to establish a trust relationship between the two accounts.
Requirements
- Account A has purchased different types of resources on HUAWEI CLOUD. Account A wants to authorize account B to manage its VPC resources in the EU-Dublin region.
- Account B can authorize one or more employees (IAM users) of company B to manage account A's resources.
- Account A can modify or cancel the authorization provided to account B at any time.
Solution
- Account A creates an agency on the IAM console to authorize account B to manage its resources.
- Account B assigns permissions to its IAM users to manage account A's resources specified in the agency.
- Account A can modify or delete the agency at any time. Deleting the agency will automatically cancel the permissions assigned to account B and its IAM users for managing account A's resources.

Delegating an Account to Manage Resources
Account A performs the following procedure to delegate account B to manage its VPC resources in the EU-Dublin region.
- Log in to HUAWEI CLOUD using account A. On the IAM console, choose Agencies in the navigation pane.
- Click Create Agency, and enter an agency name, for example, VPC Resources O&M.
- Select the Account agency type, and enter the account name of company B, for example, B-Company.
- Set Validity Period to Unlimited.
- Click Next.
- Select VPC FullAccess and click Next.
- Specify the authorization scope as Region-specific projects, and select EU-Dublin.
- Click OK.
The agency is displayed in the agency list.
NOTE:
Account A can modify the permissions or validity period of the agency or delete the agency based on service requirements.
Managing Resources of an Account
After the agency is created, account B can switch roles to account A to manage account A's resources. To do this, account B needs to have obtained account A's account name and the agency name.
- Log in to the HUAWEI CLOUD management console using account B.
- Click the username in the upper right corner, and choose Switch Role.
- Enter the account name of account A. The agency created by account A is displayed automatically.
- Click OK to switch to account A.
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