Permissions Management

You can use Identity and Access Management (IAM) to manage OBS permissions and control access to your resources. IAM provides identity authentication, permissions management, and access control.

You can create IAM users for your employees, and assign permissions to these users on a principle of least privilege (PoLP) basis to control their access to specific resource types. For example, you can create IAM users for software developers and assign specific permissions to allow them to use OBS resources but prevent them from being able to delete resources or perform any high-risk operations.

If your account does not require individual IAM users for permissions management, skip this section.

OBS Permissions

By default, new IAM users do not have any permissions assigned. You can assign permissions to these users by adding them to one or more groups and attaching policies to the groups. IAM provides preset system policies that define common permissions for different services, such as full control access and read-only. You can directly use these preset policies.

OBS is a global service deployed and accessed without specifying any physical region. OBS permissions are assigned to users in the global project, and users do not need to switch regions when accessing OBS.

You can grant users permissions by using roles or policies.

Roles: A type of coarse-grained authorization mechanism that provides only a limited number of service-level roles. When using roles to grant permissions, you also need to assign dependency roles. However, roles are not an ideal choice for fine-grained authorization and secure access control.
Policies: A type of fine-grained authorization mechanism that defines permissions required to perform operations on specific cloud resources under certain conditions. This mechanism allows for more flexible policy-based authorization for secure access control. For example, you can grant OBS users only the permissions for managing a certain type of OBS resources. Most policies define permissions based on APIs.

Due to data caching, a role and policy involving OBS actions will take effect 10 to 15 minutes after it is attached to a user and a user group.

Table 1 lists all system permissions of OBS.

**Table 1** OBS system permissions
Role/Policy Name	Description	Type	Dependency
Tenant Administrator	Allows you to perform all operations on all services except IAM.	System-defined role	None
Tenant Guest	Allows you to perform read-only operations on all services except IAM.	System-defined role	None
OBS Administrator	Allows you to perform any operation on all OBS resources under the account.	System-defined policy	None
OBS ReadOnlyAccess	Allows you to list buckets, obtain basic bucket information and bucket metadata, and list objects (excluding versioned objects).	System-defined policy	None
OBS OperateAccess	Allows you to perform all operations defined in OBS ReadOnlyAccess and to perform basic object operations, such as uploading objects, downloading objects, deleting objects, and obtaining object ACLs.	System-defined policy	None

The following table lists operations that can be performed under each set of OBS permission.

**Table 2** Permissions and the allowed operations on OBS resources
Operation	Tenant Administrator	Tenant Guest	OBS Administrator	OBS ReadOnlyAccess	OBS OperateAccess
Listing buckets	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Creating buckets	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
Deleting buckets	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
Obtaining basic bucket information	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Controlling bucket access	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
Managing bucket policies	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
Listing objects	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported	Supported
Listing objects with multiple versions	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
Uploading files	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Supported
Creating folders	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Supported
Deleting objects	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Supported
Deleting folders	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Supported
Downloading objects	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not supported	Supported
Deleting object versions	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Supported
Downloading object versions	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not supported	Supported
Undeleting objects	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Supported
Deleting fragments	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Supported
Controlling object access	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
Configuring object metadata	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
Obtaining object metadata	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not supported	Supported
Managing versioning	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
Managing logging	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
Managing event notifications	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
Managing lifecycle rules	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
Managing static website hosting	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
Managing CORS rules	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
Managing URL validation	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
Managing domain names	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
Managing cross-region replication	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
Appending data to objects	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Supported
Configuring object ACL	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
Configuring the ACL for an object version	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Not supported
Obtaining object ACL information	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not supported	Supported
Obtaining the ACL of a specific object version	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not supported	Supported
Initiating a multipart upload	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Supported
Listing uploaded parts	Supported	Supported	Supported	Not supported	Supported
Canceling multipart uploads	Supported	Not supported	Supported	Not supported	Supported