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In this article:

  • Access management
  • Resources you can assign a role for
  • Roles existing in this service
  • Service roles
  • Primitive roles
  • What roles do I need

Access management in Certificate Manager

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Updated at May 5, 2025
  • Access management
  • Resources you can assign a role for
  • Roles existing in this service
    • Service roles
    • Primitive roles
  • What roles do I need

In this section, you will learn:

  • What resources you can assign a role for.
  • What roles exist in the service.
  • What roles are required for particular actions.

Access managementAccess management

Yandex Identity and Access Management checks all operations in Yandex Cloud. If an entity does not have required permissions, this service returns an error.

To grant permissions for a resource, assign the appropriate resource roles to an entity performing operations, such as a Yandex account, service account, federated users, user group, system group, or public group. For more information, see How access management works in Yandex Cloud.

To assign a role for a resource, a user needs the certificate-manager.admin role or one of the following roles for that resource:

  • admin
  • resource-manager.admin
  • organization-manager.admin
  • resource-manager.clouds.owner
  • organization-manager.organizations.owner

Resources you can assign a role forResources you can assign a role for

You can assign a role to an organization, cloud, or folder. The roles assigned to organizations, clouds, and folders also apply to their nested resources.

You can assign a role for a custom certificate via the Yandex Cloud CLI or API.

Roles existing in this serviceRoles existing in this service

The chart below shows service’s roles and their permission inheritance. For example, editor inherits all viewer permissions. You can find role descriptions under the chart.

Service rolesService roles

certificate-manager.auditorcertificate-manager.auditor

The certificate-manager.auditor role enables viewing info on certificates and access permissions assigned to them.

Users with this role can:

  • View the list of certificates and dependent resources, as well as info on certificates and access permissions assigned to them.
  • View info on the Certificate Manager quotas.

certificate-manager.viewercertificate-manager.viewer

The certificate-manager.viewer role enables viewing info on certificates and access permissions assigned to them.

Users with this role can:

  • View the list of certificates and dependent resources, as well as info on certificates and access permissions assigned to them.
  • View info on the Certificate Manager quotas.

This role also includes the certificate-manager.auditor permissions.

certificate-manager.editorcertificate-manager.editor

The certificate-manager.editor role enables managing certificates and viewing info on them, as well as on access permissions assigned to them, and on the Certificate Manager quotas.

Users with this role can:

  • View the list of certificates and dependent resources, as well as info on certificates and access permissions assigned to them.
  • Add, modify, update, and delete certificates.
  • View info on the Certificate Manager quotas.

This role also includes the certificate-manager.viewer permissions.

certificate-manager.admincertificate-manager.admin

The certificate-manager.admin role enables managing certificates and access to them, as well as getting the certificate contents.

Users with this role can:

  • View the list of certificates and dependent resources, as well as info on certificates.
  • View info on access permissions assigned to certificates and modify such permissions.
  • Add, modify, update, and delete certificates.
  • Get certificate contents.
  • View info on the Certificate Manager quotas.
  • View info on the relevant folder.

This role also includes the certificate-manager.editor permissions.

certificate-manager.certificates.downloadercertificate-manager.certificates.downloader

The certificate-manager.certificates.downloader role enables viewing the list of certificates and info on them, as well as getting the certificate contents.

Primitive rolesPrimitive roles

Primitive roles allow users to perform actions in all Yandex Cloud services.

auditorauditor

The auditor role grants a permission to read configuration and metadata of any Yandex Cloud resources without any access to data.

For instance, users with this role can:

  • View info on a resource.
  • View the resource metadata.
  • View the list of operations with a resource.

auditor is the most secure role that does not grant any access to the service data. This role suits the users who need minimum access to the Yandex Cloud resources.

viewerviewer

The viewer role grants the permissions to read the info on any Yandex Cloud resources.

This role also includes the auditor permissions.

Unlike auditor, the viewer role provides access to service data in read mode.

editoreditor

The editor role provides permissions to manage any Yandex Cloud resources, except for assigning roles to other users, transferring organization ownership, removing an organization, and deleting Key Management Service encryption keys.

For instance, users with this role can create, modify, and delete resources.

This role also includes the viewer permissions.

adminadmin

The admin role enables assigning any roles, except for resource-manager.clouds.owner and organization-manager.organizations.owner, and provides permissions to manage any Yandex Cloud resources (except for transferring organization ownership and removing an organization).

Prior to assigning the admin role for an organization, cloud, or billing account, make sure to check out the information on protecting privileged accounts.

This role also includes the editor permissions.

Instead of primitive roles, we recommend using service roles with more granular access control, allowing you to implement the least privilege principle.

For more information about primitive roles, see the Yandex Cloud role reference.

What roles do I needWhat roles do I need

The table below lists the roles required to perform a particular action. You can always assign a role offering more permissions than the one specified. For example, you can assign the editor role instead of viewer.

Action Methods Required roles
Certificate Manager
Getting lists of certificates list viewer for folder
Get certificate details get viewer for certificate or folder
Adding a Let's Encrypt certificate requestNew editor for folder
Updating and deleting a Let's Encrypt certificate update, delete editor for certificate or folder
Adding a custom certificate create editor for folder
Renewing, updating, or deleting a custom certificate update, delete editor for certificate or folder
Getting the contents of a custom certificate or Let's Encrypt certificate get-content certificate-manager.certificates.downloader for certificate or folder
IAM
Assigning a role, revoking a role, and viewing the roles assigned for a folder or cloud setAccessBinding, updateAccessBindings, listAccessBindings admin or certificate-manager.admin for certificate or folder

What's next {what-is-next}What's next

  • How to assign a role.
  • How to revoke a role.
  • Learn more about access management in Yandex Cloud.
  • Learn more about inheriting roles.

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