Creating a User and Granting VBS Permissions

This chapter describes how to use IAM to implement fine-grained permissions control for your VBS 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 VBS 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 VBS resources.

If your HUAWEI CLOUD account does not require individual IAM users, skip this section.

This section describes the procedure for granting permissions (see Figure 1).

Prerequisites

Learn about the permissions (see VBS Permissions) supported by VBS and choose policies or roles according to your requirements. For the permissions of other services, see System Permissions.

Process Flow

Figure 1 Process for granting VBS permissions

Create a user group and assign permissions to it.
Create a user group on the IAM console, and attach the VBS Administrator policy to the group.
Create an IAM user.
Create a user on the IAM console and add the user to the group created in 1.
Log in and verify permissions.
Log in to VBS Console as the created user, and verify that the user only has read permissions for VBS.
- Choose Service List > Volume Backup Service. Then click Create VBS Backup on the VBS console. If a VBS backup is successfully created, the VBS Administrator policy has already taken effect.
- Choose any other service in the Service List. If a message appears indicating that you have insufficient permissions to access the service, the VBS Administrator policy has already taken effect.