- 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
Overview of Virtual User SSO via SAML
Huawei Cloud supports identity federation with Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), which is an open standard that many identity providers (IdPs) use. During identity federation, Huawei Cloud functions as a service provider (SP) and enterprises function as IdPs. This section describes how to configure identity federation and how identity federation works.
Ensure that your enterprise IdP supports SAML 2.0.
Configuring Identity Federation
The following describes how to configure your enterprise IdP and Huawei Cloud to trust each other.

- Create an IdP entity and establish a trust relationship: Create an IdP entity for your enterprise on Huawei Cloud. Then, upload the Huawei Cloud metadata file to the enterprise IdP, and upload the metadata file of the enterprise IdP to Huawei Cloud.
Figure 2 Exchanging metadata files
- Configure the enterprise IdP: Configure enterprise IdP parameters to determine what information can be sent to Huawei Cloud.
- Configure identity conversion rules: Configure identity conversion rules to determine the IdP user identities and permissions on Huawei Cloud.
Figure 3 Mapping external identities to virtual users
- Verify the federated login: Check whether the enterprise user can log in to Huawei Cloud through SSO.
- (Optional) Configure a federated login entry: Configure the login link (see Figure 4) in the enterprise IdP to allow enterprise users to be redirected to Huawei Cloud from your enterprise management system.
How Identity Federation Works
Figure 5 shows the identity federation process between an enterprise management system and Huawei Cloud.
To view interactive requests and assertions with a better experience, you are advised to use Google Chrome and install SAML Message Decoder.
As shown in Figure 5, the process of identity federation is as follows:
- A user opens the login link generated after the IdP creation in the browser. The browser sends an SSO request to Huawei Cloud.
- Huawei Cloud authenticates the user against the metadata file of the enterprise IdP and constructs a SAML request to the browser.
- The browser forwards the SAML request to the enterprise IdP.
- The user enters their username and password on the login page. After the enterprise IdP authenticates the user's identity, it constructs a SAML assertion containing the user details and sends the assertion to the browser as a SAML response.
- The browser responds and forwards the SAML response to Huawei Cloud.
- Huawei Cloud parses the assertion in the SAML response, identifies the IAM user group mapping to the user based on the identity conversion rules, and issues a token to the user.
- The SSO login is successful.
NOTE:
The assertion must carry a signature; otherwise, the login will fail.
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