Creating a User and Granting VPN Permissions

This topic describes how to use IAM to implement fine-grained permissions control for your VPN resources. With IAM, you can:

Create IAM users for employees based on your enterprise's organizational structure. Each IAM user will have their own security credentials for accessing VPN resources.
Grant only the permissions required for users to perform a specific task.
Grant the permission to perform professional and efficient O&M on your VPN resources to other Huawei Cloud accounts or cloud services.

If your Huawei Cloud account does not need individual IAM users, skip this topic.

This section describes the procedure for granting permissions (see Figure 1).

Prerequisites

Learn about the permissions (see Permissions Management) supported by VPN and choose policies or roles based on your requirements. For system permissions of other cloud services, see System Permissions.

Process Flow

Figure 1 Process for granting VPN permissions

Create a user group and assign permissions to it.
Create a user group on the IAM console and attach the VPN Administrator policy to the group.
Create an IAM user and add it to a user group.
Create a user on the IAM console and add the user to the group created in 1.
Log in and verify permissions.
Log in to the management console as the created user. Switch to the authorized region and verify the permissions.
- Click Service List and choose Networking > Virtual Private Network. On the Enterprise – VPN Gateways page, click Buy VPN Gateway in the upper right corner. If the VPN gateway is successfully created, the VPN Administrator policy has already taken effect.
- Choose any other service in Service List. If a message appears indicating that you have insufficient permissions to access the service, the VPN Administrator policy has already taken effect.