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Creating a User and Assigning VOD Permissions

This section describes how to use IAM to implement fine-grained permissions management on your VOD resources. With IAM, you can:

  • With IAM, you can create IAM users for employees based on the organizational structure of your enterprise. Each IAM user has their own identity credentials for accessing VOD resources.
  • Assign users only the permissions required to perform a given task based on their job responsibilities.
  • Entrust a Huawei Cloud account or cloud service to perform efficient O&M on your VOD resources.

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

This section describes the process of assigning permissions (see Figure 1).

Prerequisites

Learn about the permissions (see Permissions Management) supported by VOD and choose policies or roles according to your requirements.

Notes

As of December 30, 2024, policies will be the only way to manage VOD permissions. Policies are easy to configure and allow flexible permission settings, meeting your requirements for IAM user permissions management in different scenarios.

If you enabled VOD before December 30, 2024 and are using both roles and policies to manage VOD permissions, you can continue with the approach. For details, see Creating a User and Granting VOD Permissions.

To switch to the policy-only approach for VOD permissions management, submit a service ticket.

Process Flow

Figure 1 Process of assigning VOD read-only permissions
  1. Create a user group and assign permissions.

    Create a user group on the IAM console and attach the VOD ReadOnlyAccess policy to the group.

  2. Create an IAM user and add it to the user group.

    Create a user on the IAM console and add it to the group created in 1.

  3. Log in as the IAM user and verify permissions.

    In the authorized region, perform the following operations:

    • Choose Service List > Video on Demand. The VOD console is displayed. If a message is displayed indicating insufficient permissions for performing the operation, the ReadOnlyAccess policy has already taken effect.
    • Choose any other service in Service List. If a message is displayed indicating insufficient permissions for the service, the VOD ReadOnlyAccess policy has already taken effect.
Parent topic: Permissions Management