Permissions Management

VPN Permissions

New IAM users do not have any permissions assigned by default. You need to first add them to one or more groups and attach policies or roles to these groups. The users then inherit permissions from the groups and can perform specified operations on cloud services based on the permissions they have been assigned.

VPN is a project-level service deployed for specific regions. When you set Scope to Region-specific projects and select the specified projects in the specified regions, the users only have permissions for VPN in the selected projects. If you set Scope to All resources, users have permissions for VPN in all region-specific projects. When accessing VPN, the users need to switch to the authorized region.

You can grant permissions by using roles or policies.

• Roles: A type of coarse-grained authorization mechanism that defines permissions related to user responsibilities. There are only a limited number of roles for granting permissions to users. Some roles depend other roles to take effect. When you assign such roles to users, remember to assign the roles they depend on. 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, meeting requirements for secure access control. For example, administrators can grant IAM users only permissions to manage VPN resources of a certain type.

Table 2 lists the common operations supported by system-defined permissions for VPN.