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Creating a User and Authorizing the User the Permission to Access DEW

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

  • Create IAM users for employees based on the organizational structure of your enterprise. Each IAM user has its own security credentials to access DEW resources.
  • Grant users only the permissions required to perform a task.
  • Entrust an account or cloud service to perform efficient O&M on your KMS resources.

If your account does not need individual IAM users, skip this chapter.

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

Prerequisites

Before granting permissions to a user group, you need to understand the available DEW permissions, and grant permissions based on the real-life scenario. The following tables describe the permissions supported in DEW.

Table 1 DEW permissions

Role/Policy

Description

Type

KMS Administrator

Administrator permissions for the encryption key

Role

KMS CMKFullAccess

All permissions for the encryption keys

Policy

KMS CMKReadOnlyAccess

Read-only permission for encryption keys

Policy

Authorization Process

Figure 1 Authorizing the DEW access permission to a user
  1. Create a user group and assign permissions.
  2. Create a user and add it to a user group.
  3. Log in as the created user and verify permissions.

    Log in to the console as newly created user, and verify that the user only has the assigned permissions.

Tenant Guest Roles

If you have configured Tenant Guest permissions for the IAM account, apart from the read-only permissions for all cloud services except Identity and Access Management (IAM), you also have the following KMS permissions:

  • kms:cmk:create: Create a key.
  • kms:cmk:createDataKey: Create a DEK.
  • kms:cmk:createDataKeyWithoutPlaintext: Create a plaintext-free DEK.
  • kms:cmk:encryptDataKey: Encrypt the DEK.
  • kms:cmk:decryptDataKey: Decrypt a DEK.
  • kms:cmk:retireGrant: Retire a grant.
  • kms:cmk:decryptData: Decrypt data.
  • kms:cmk:encryptData: Encrypt data.
  • kms::generateRandom: Generate a random number.

If you want to configure the Tenant Guest role for an IAM user but do not want to have the preceding permissions, you need to configure a custom deny policy for the IAM user. For details about how to configure a custom policy, see Creating a Custom DEW Policy.

Parent topic: Permissions Management