Access management in Yandex Lockbox

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 lockbox.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 secret in the management console or using the Yandex Cloud CLI, API, or Terraform.

Roles this service hasRoles this service has

You can manage access to secrets using both service and primitive roles.

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

lockbox.auditorlockbox.auditor

The lockbox.auditor role enables viewing info on secrets and on access permissions assigned to them, as well as details on Yandex Lockbox quotas and folder metadata.

lockbox.viewerlockbox.viewer

The lockbox.viewer role enables viewing info on secrets and access permissions assigned to them, as well as info on the relevant folder and Yandex Lockbox quotas.

This role includes the lockbox.auditor permissions.

lockbox.editorlockbox.editor

The lockbox.editor role enables managing secrets and their versions, as well as viewing info on access permissions assigned to secrets.

Users with this role can:

• View info on secrets and on access permissions assigned to them, as well as create, activate, deactivate, and delete secrets.
• Modify secret version metadata, create and delete secret versions, as well as change current secret versions, schedule deleting a secret version, or cancel a scheduled deletion.
• View information on the relevant folder.
• View details on Yandex Lockbox quotas.

This role includes the lockbox.viewer permissions.

lockbox.adminlockbox.admin

The lockbox.admin role enables managing secrets, their versions, and access to them, as well as viewing secret contents.

Users with this role can:

• View info on access permissions assigned to secrets and modify such permissions.
• View info on secrets, including secret contents.
• Create, activate, deactivate, and delete secrets.
• Modify secret version metadata, create and delete secret versions, as well as change current secret versions, schedule deleting a secret version, or cancel a scheduled deletion.
• View information on the relevant folder.
• View details on Yandex Lockbox quotas.

This role includes the lockbox.editor and lockbox.payloadViewer permissions.

lockbox.payloadViewerlockbox.payloadViewer

The lockbox.payloadViewer role enables viewing secret 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	lockbox.admin	lockbox.editor	lockbox.viewer	lockbox.payloadViewer	kms.keys.encrypterDecrypter
Create and delete secrets			-	-	-
Change the metadata of the secret			-	-	-
Read the metadata of the secret				-	-
Change the content of the secret version			-	-	-
Read the content of the secret version		-	-		-
Control access to the secret		-	-	-	-
Secret encryption and decryption operations	-	-	-	-

What's nextWhat's next

• Secure use of Yandex Cloud
• How to assign a role.
• How to revoke a role.
• Learn more about access management in Yandex Cloud.
• Learn more about role inheritance.
• Access management in Yandex Key Management Service