Assigning Permissions to O&M Personnel

Assigning Permissions to O&M Personnel

The following is an example procedure for specifying an employee in the company as the network O&M owner in the CN-Hong Kong region. If you want to specify an employee as any other O&M owner, grant the required permissions to the employee according to Table 1.

Step 1: Create a User Group and Assign Permissions

1. Log in to the Huawei Cloud management console.
2. On the management console, hover the mouse pointer over the username in the upper right corner and then choose Identity and Access Management.
3. On the IAM console, choose User Groups in the navigation pane. Then click Create User Group.
   Figure 2 Creating a user group
   

4. Enter the user group name Network_OM, and click OK.

   

5. In the row containing the user group, click Authorize.

   

6. Search for and select VPC FullAccess and ELB FullAccess, and click Next.
7. Specify the authorization scope as Region-specific projects and select CN-Hong Kong.
   

   • If users in the group need to view resource usage, attach the BSS Administrator role to the group for the same project.
   • When specifying an employee as the security O&M owner according to Table 1, you must grant the employee other related permissions because the security services interwork with other cloud services. For more information, see Assigning Dependency Roles.

Step 2: Create an IAM User

1. In the navigation pane of the IAM console, choose Users. Then click Create User.
2. Specify the user details and access type. To create more users, click Add User. A maximum of 10 users can be created at a time.
   Figure 3 Configuring user information
   
   

   • Users can log in to Huawei Cloud using the username, email address, or mobile number.
   • If users forget their password, they can reset it through email address or mobile number verification. If no email addresses or mobile numbers have been bound to users, users need to contact the administrator to reset their passwords.

   Table 2 User information

   Parameter	Description
   Username	Username that will be used to log in to Huawei Cloud, for example, James and Alice. This field is required.
   Email Address	Email address of the IAM user that can be used as a login credential. IAM users can bind an email address after they are created. This field is required if you have specified Set by user as the credential type.
   Mobile Number	Mobile phone number of the IAM user that can be used as a login credential. IAM users can bind a mobile number after they are created. This field is optional.
   Description	Additional information about the IAM user. This field is optional.

   Figure 4 Setting the access type
   
   • Programmatic access: Select this option to allow the user to access Huawei Cloud services using development tools, such as APIs, CLI, and SDKs. You can generate an access key or set a password for the user.
   • Management console access: Select this option to allow the user to access Huawei Cloud services using the management console. You can set or generate a password for the user or request the user to set a password at first login.
     

     • If the user accesses cloud services only by using the management console, select Management console access for Access Type and Password for Credential Type.
     • If the user accesses cloud services only through programmatic calls, select Programmatic access for Access Type and Access key for Credential Type
     • If the user needs to use a password as the credential for programmatic access to certain APIs, select Programmatic access for Access Type and Password for Credential Type
     • If the user needs to perform access key verification when using certain services in the console, select Programmatic access and Management console access for Access Type and Access key and Password for Credential Type. For example, the user needs to perform access key verification when creating a data migration job in the Cloud Data Migration (CDM) console.

     Table 3 Setting the credential type and login protection

     Credential Type and Login Protection		Description
     Access key		After users are created, you can download the access keys (AK/SK) generated for these users. Each user can have a maximum of two access keys.
     Password	Set now	Set a password for the user and determine whether to require the user to reset the password at first login. If you are the user, select this option and set a password for login. You do not need to select Require password reset at first login.
     	Automatically generated	The system automatically generates a login password for the user. After the user is created, download the EXCEL password file and provide the password to the user. The user can then use this password for login. This option is available only when you create a single user.
     	Set by user	A one-time login URL will be emailed to the user. The user can click the link to log in to the console and set a password. If you do not use the IAM user, select this option and enter the email address and mobile number of the IAM user. The user can then set a password by clicking on the one-time login URL sent over email. The login URL is valid for seven days.
     Login Protection	Enable (Recommended)	If login protection is enabled, the user will need to enter a verification code in addition to the username and password during login. Enable this function for account security. You can select SMS, email, or virtual MFA device for verification during login.
     	Disable	If login protection is disabled, you can enable it later by following the instructions provided in Viewing or Modifying IAM User Information.

3. (Optional) Click Next to add the users to user groups.
   • The user will inherit the permissions assigned to the user groups to which the user belongs.
   • You can also create new groups as required.
   

   • If the user will be an administrator, add the user to the default group admin.
   • Each user can be added to multiple user groups.

4. Click Next. If you have specified the access type as Programmatic access in Step 2, download the access key on the Finish page.
   Figure 5 Users created successfully
   

Step 3: Log In as an IAM User and Verify Permissions

An IAM user can log in using different methods. The following describes how to log in through the login page. For more login methods, see Logging In to Huawei Cloud.

1. On the Huawei Cloud login page, click IAM User.
2. On the IAM User Login page, enter the account name, user name, and password of the created user.

   

   • Account name: Name of the account used to create the IAM user
   • Username and password: The username and password specified for the IAM user

3. On the management console, switch to the CN-Hong Kong region.
4. Choose Service List > Virtual Private Cloud, Elastic Load Balance, and Domain Name Service, and perform operations on each service console to verify that the permissions have been successfully assigned.
5. Choose a service other than the preceding services from Service List to ensure that the service cannot be accessed.
6. On the management console, switch to a region other than CN-Hong Kong and ensure that the VPC, ELB, and DNS consoles cannot be accessed.