Overview

Account Management allows you to centrally manage human-machine accounts of Huawei Cloud ECSs, RDS DB instances, GaussDB instances, and middleware. We collect multiple accounts in one place to avoid risks like forgetting passwords or having them leaked. You can get host passwords using account management. With security controls, you can log in to Linux hosts and run commands without entering passwords. Here are the steps for account password management, automated password changes, and password-free logins.

Account management process:

Account management: You can manage accounts by using this capability. For example, you can configure keys, import accounts, and view account passwords.

2. Account encryption: You can change the password of an account on this page.

Automatic password change for existing resources: Configure account baselines on the Account Management > Account Password Change > Account Baselines tab page.
Automatic password change for new resources: Configure the password change policy on the Account Management > Account Password Change > Password Change Policies tab page.
Periodic region-based password change: Add regions on the Account Management > Account Password Change > Password Change Tasks tab page.

After the configuration, you can view the account password and set password-free login.

Regions allowing automated password change

**Table 1** **Regions allowing automated password change**
Region
CN North-Beijing1
CN North-Beijing4
CN East-Shanghai2
CN East-Shanghai1
CN South-Guangzhou
CN-Hong Kong
AP-Singapore
AP-Bangkok
AP-Manila
ME-Riyadh
AF-Johannesburg
LA-Mexico City2
LA-Sao Paulo1