Assigning roles to a service account

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This section describes how to assign a role to a service account for a resource. To assign another user a role to a service account like to a resource, follow the instructions in Setting up access rights for a service account.

A service account can only be assigned roles for the resources of the cloud that the service account belongs to.

In the management console, you can only assign a role for the folder where the service account was created. To assign it a role for another resource, use the CLI or API.

Management console

CLI

API

To assign a role for the folder where the service account was created:

Select a folder.
Go to the Service accounts tab.
Click next to the service account and select Edit service account.
Click Add role and select a role.
Click Save.

The folder specified in the CLI profile is used by default. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

To assign the service account a role for a resource, run:

yc <SERVICE-NAME> <RESOURCE> add-access-binding <RESOURCE-NAME>|<RESOURCE-ID> \
    --role <ROLE-ID> \
    --subject serviceAccount:<SERVICE-ACCOUNT-ID>

where:

<SERVICE-NAME> is the name of the service that the resource belongs to (for example, resource-manager).
<RESOURCE> is the resource category, for example cloud.
<RESOURCE-NAME> is the name of the resource. You can specify a resource by its name or ID.
<RESOURCE-ID> is the resource ID.
<ROLE-ID> is the role ID, for example resource-manager.clouds.owner.
<SERVICE-ACCOUNT-ID> is the identifier of the service account assigned the role.

For example, to assign the viewer role to a service account for the folder my-folder:

Find out the service account ID by its name:

$ yc iam service-account get my-robot
id: aje6o61dvog2h6g9a33s
folder_id: b1gvmob95yysaplct532
created_at: "2018-10-15T18:01:25Z"
name: my-robot

If you don't know the name of the service account, get a list of service accounts with their IDs:

$ yc iam service-account list
+----------------------+------------------+-----------------+
|          ID          |       NAME       |   DESCRIPTION   |
+----------------------+------------------+-----------------+
| aje6o61dvog2h6g9a33s | my-robot         | my description  |
+----------------------+------------------+-----------------+

Assign a role to the my-robot service account using its ID:

$ yc resource-manager folder add-access-binding my-folder \
    --role viewer \
    --subject serviceAccount:aje6o61dvog2h6g9a33s

Get the ID of the folder with service accounts.

Get a list of folder service accounts to find out their IDs:

$ export FOLDER_ID=b1gvmob95yysaplct532
$ export IAM_TOKEN=CggaATEVAgA...
$ curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ${IAM_TOKEN}" \
    "https://iam.api.cloud.yandex.net/iam/v1/serviceAccounts?folderId=${FOLDER_ID}"

{
 "serviceAccounts": [
  {
   "id": "ajebqtreob2dpblin8pe",
   "folderId": "b1gvmob95yysaplct532",
   "createdAt": "2018-10-18T13:42:40Z",
   "name": "my-robot",
   "description": "my description"
  }
 ]
}

Create a request body, for example, in a body.json file. Set the action property to ADD and specify the serviceAccount type and service account ID in the subject property:

body.json:

{
    "accessBindingDeltas": [{
        "action": "ADD",
        "accessBinding": {
            "roleId": "editor",
            "subject": {
                "id": "ajebqtreob2dpblin8pe",
                "type": "serviceAccount"
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

Assign a role, say, for the folder with the b1gvmob95yysaplct532 ID:

$ export FOLDER_ID=b1gvmob95yysaplct532
$ export IAM_TOKEN=CggaATEVAgA...
$ curl -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${IAM_TOKEN}" \
    -d '@body.json' \
    "https://resource-manager.api.cloud.yandex.net/resource-manager/v1/folders/${FOLDER_ID}:updateAccessBindings"

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