Identity and access management

Introduction

Identity and Access Management helps users manage resource access permissions within cloud accounts. It caters to various enterprise roles by granting different staff levels access to specific product permissions. For enterprises requiring multi-user collaboration for resource operations, using Identity and Access Management is recommended.

It is applicable to the following usage scenarios:

• Medium and large enterprise customers: Authorization management for multiple employees in the enterprise;
• Technology-oriented vendor or SAAS platform provider: Resource and permission management for proxy clients;
• Small and medium-sized developers or small enterprises: Add project members or collaborators for resource management.

Create User

1. After logging into the root account, select Identity and Access Management from the console to access the user management page.

2. Click on User Management in the left navigation bar, then click New User on the IAM User Management List page.

3. In the New User dialog box that appears, enter the username, confirm the details, and return to the IAM User Management List to view the newly created IAM user.

Configuration Policy

EIP provides both system and custom policies for product-level and instance-level permission control.

• System policy: A pre-defined set of permissions provided by the Baidu AI Cloud system for resource management. These can be directly assigned to IAM users, but users cannot modify them.
• Custom policy: A user-created, more granular set of permissions for resource management, allowing specific permissions to be configured for single instances. This provides flexibility to address the unique permission management needs of different users.

Description:

• An EIP consists of various sub-products, with permissions classified into three categories: Read-only, Operation and Maintenance, and Management.
• For each product, O&M permissions encompass all read-only permissions. Administration permissions, in turn, include both read-only and O&M permissions. The table below highlights only areas where upper-level permissions deviate from lower-level permissions.
• Custom policies apply to specific individual instances and only take effect for those instances. As a result, they do not include permissions for instance creation.

Permission scope

The correspondence between the names of system policy and third-level permissions for each product is as follows:

The permission scope of policies for each product is detailed as follows:

User Authorization

In the IAM User Management List under User Management, select Edit Permission in the Operations column for the relevant IAM user, then authorize with either a System Policy or a Custom Policy.

Note: To change an IAM user's permissions without modifying existing policy rules, you must delete the current policy and assign a new one since existing policy permissions cannot be unchecked or edited directly.

Sign in as IAM User

After the root account authorizes the IAM user, it can share the login link with the IAM user. The IAM user can then access the root account's management console via this link and operate or view the root account's resources based on the granted policies.

For other detailed operations, refer to Identity and Access Management.