Updated on 2024-02-08 GMT+08:00

Creating a User and Assigning Permissions

This section describes how to use IAM to control fine-grained permissions for your GeminiDB 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 GeminiDB resources.
  • Grant only the permissions required for users to perform a specific task.
  • Entrust a Huawei Cloud account or cloud service to perform efficient O&M on your GeminiDB resources.

If your Huawei Cloud account does not require individual IAM users, skip this section.

The following describes the procedure for granting permissions (see Figure 1).

Prerequisites

Learn about the permissions supported by GeminiDB and choose policies or roles based on your requirements. For details about the permissions, see Permissions Management. For system policies of other services, see Permissions Policies.

Process Flow

Figure 1 Process of granting GeminiDB permissions
  1. Create a user group and assign permissions to it.

    Create a user group on the IAM console and attach the GeminiDB FullAccess policy to the group.

    To use some interconnected services, you also need to configure permissions of such services.

    For example, when using DAS to connect to a DB instance, you need to configure the GaussDB FullAccess and DAS FullAccess permissions.

  2. 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.

  3. Log in and verify permissions.

    Log in to the management console using the created user, and verify the user's permissions:

    Choose Service List > GeminiDB and click Buy DB Instance. If you can buy an instance, the required permission policy has taken effect.