Access management in Certificate Manager

In this section, you will learn about:

• Resources you can assign a role for.
• Roles this service has.
• Roles required for specific actions.

Access managementAccess management

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

To grant permissions for a resource, assign the relevant resource roles to an entity performing operations. You can assign roles to a Yandex account, service account, local user, federated user, 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 should have 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 this service hasRoles this service has

The chart below shows service’s roles and their permission inheritance. For example, editor inherits all viewer permissions. You can find role descriptions below 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 for specific actions. You can always assign a role with more permissions. For example, you can assign the editor role instead of viewer.

Action	Methods	Required roles
Certificate Manager
Getting lists of certificates	list	viewer for the 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 the 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 role inheritance.