Authorizing a Database Account

Function

This API is used to set permissions of a database account in a specified DB instance.

Before calling an API, you need to understand the API in Authentication.

Constraints

This operation cannot be performed when the DB instance is in any of the following statuses: creating, changing instance class, changing port, frozen, or abnormal.

URI

URI format
POST /v3/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/db_privilege

Parameter description

**Table 1** Parameter description
Name	Mandatory	Description
project_id	Yes	Project ID of a tenant in a region. For details about how to obtain the project ID, see Obtaining a Project ID.
instance_id	Yes	Specifies the DB instance ID.

Request

**Table 2** Parameter description
Name	Mandatory	Type	Description
db_name	Yes	String	Database name.
users	Yes	Array of objects	Database accounts. Each element is a database account. A single request supports a maximum of 50 elements. For details on the element structure, see Table 3.

**Table 3** users field data structure description
Name	Mandatory	Type	Description
name	Yes	String	Username of the database account. Currently, SQL users without login names cannot be authorized. It can contain up to 128 characters and must be different from system usernames. System users include rdsadmin, rdsuser, rdsbackup, and rdsmirror.
readonly	No	Boolean	Whether the permission is read-only. The default value is false. true: indicates the read-only permission. false: indicates the read and write permission.

Example Request

POST https://{endpoint}/v3/0483b6b16e954cb88930a360d2c4e663/instances/a8abe84a41364097be7c233c39275087in04/db_privilege

{
    "db_name": "rds-test",
    "users": [
        {
            "name": "rds",
            "readonly": true
        },
        {
            "name": "rds001",
            "readonly": false
        }
    ]
}