Access management in Certificate Manager

In this section, you will learn:

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

About access managementAbout access management

In Yandex Cloud, all transactions are checked in Yandex Identity and Access Management. If a subject does not have the required permission, the service returns an error.

To grant permissions for a resource, assign roles for this resource to the subject that will perform the operations. You can assign roles to 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.

Roles for a resource can be assigned by users who have the certificate-manager.admin or one of the following roles for that resource:

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

Which resources you can assign a role forWhich resources you can assign a role for

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

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

Which roles exist in the serviceWhich roles exist in the service

The chart below shows which roles are available in the service and how they inherit each other's permissions. For example, the editor role includes all the permissions of viewer. You can find the description of each role under the chart.

Service rolesService roles

certificate-manager.auditorcertificate-manager.auditor

The certificate-manager.auditor role enables viewing info on certificates and domains, as well as on 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 the list of domains and dependent resources, as well as info on domains 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 domains, as well as on 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 the list of domains and dependent resources, as well as info on domains 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 domains, as well as viewing info on them, 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 the list of domains and dependent resources, as well as info on domains and access permissions assigned to them.
• Create, modify, and delete domains, as well as link certificates to domains.
• 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, domains, 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 the list of domains and dependent resources, as well as info on domains.
• View info on access permissions assigned to domains and modify such permissions.
• Create, modify, and delete domains, as well as link certificates to domains.
• 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. This ensures more selective access control and implementation of the principle of least privilege.

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 a list of certificates or domains	list	viewer for a folder
Getting certificate or domain details	get	viewer for a certificate or folder
Adding a Let's Encrypt certificate	requestNew	editor for the folder
Updating and deleting a Let's Encrypt certificate	update, delete	editor for the certificate or folder
Adding a custom certificate	create	editor for the folder
Renewing, updating, or deleting a custom certificate	update, delete	editor for the certificate or folder
Getting the contents of a custom certificate or Let's Encrypt certificate	get-content	certificate-manager.certificates.downloader for the certificate or folder
Adding a domain	create	editor for the folder
Updating a domain and deleting a domain	update, delete	editor for the domain or folder
Updating a domain certificate	setPrimaryCertificate	editor for the domain 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 the certificate, domain, 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.