Creating a Grant

Prerequisites

• You have obtained the ID of the grantee (user to whom permissions are to be authorized).
• The desired CMK is in Enabled status.

Constraints

The owner of a CMK can create a grant for the CMK on the KMS console or by calling APIs. The IAM users or accounts who have the grant creation permission assigned by the owner of the CMK can create grants for the CMK only by calling APIs.

Procedure

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner of the management console and select a region or project.
3. Click . Choose Security & Compliance > Data Encryption Workshop.
4. Click the alias of the desired CMK to go to the page displaying its details to create a grant on it.
5. Click the Grants tab.
   Figure 1 Grant tab page
   

6. Click Create Grant. The Create Grant dialog box is displayed.
   Figure 2 Creating a grant (for a user)
   
   Figure 3 Creating a grant (for an account)
   

7. In the dialog box that is displayed, enter the ID of the user to be authorized and select permissions to be granted. For more information, see Table 1.
   

   A grantee can perform the authorized operations only by calling the necessary APIs. For details, see the .

   Table 1 Parameter description

   Parameter	Description	Example Value
   Key ID	ID of a CMK (automatically read by the system)	-
   User or Tenant	Whether a user or an account is authorized. User User ID: Enter the IAM user ID. To obtain the ID, click the username in the upper right corner of the page, choose My Credentials. Choose API Credentials from the navigation pane, and copy the value of IAM User ID. After the authorization is complete, the IAM user can use the specified keys. Account Account ID: Enter the IAM user ID. To obtain the ID, click the username in the upper right corner of the page, choose My Credentials. Choose API Credentials from the navigation pane, and copy the value of Account ID. After the authorization is complete, all IAM users under the account can use specified keys.	d9a6b2bdaedd4ba586cabe6372d1b312
   Operations	The following permissions can be authorized: NOTE: You can create multiple grants on a CMK to provide different permissions to the same user. The user's permissions on the CMK are the combination of all the grants. This parameter cannot be left blank. Selecting only Create Grant is not allowed. Create Data Key Without Plaintext Create Data Key Encrypt Data Key Decrypt Data Key Query Key Information Create Grant Retire Grant A grantee can retire a grant if the grantee does not need that permission. If, before retiring a grant, the grantee has granted the permission to another user, that user's permission will not be affected by the grant retirement. Encrypt Data Decrypt Data	-

8. Click OK. When message Grant created successfully is displayed in the upper right corner, the grant has been created.

   In the list of grants, you can view the grant ID, grant type, grantee ID, granted operation, and creation time of the grant.