Access management in Yandex Cloud Video
User access to Cloud Video depends on relevant permissions granted within an organization. Organizations are managed using Yandex Cloud Organization.
The operations available to Cloud Video users are determined by their roles. You can assign roles to a Yandex account, federated users, user group, system group, or public group. For more information about managing access to Yandex Cloud, see How access management works in Yandex Cloud.
Roles for a resource can be assigned by users who have the video.admin role or one of the following roles for that resource:
adminresource-manager.adminorganization-manager.adminresource-manager.clouds.ownerorganization-manager.organizations.owner
Adding a user to Cloud Video
You can add a user to Cloud Video as follows:
- Send an invitation from the Cloud Video interface by specifying the email address that the user used to register in the organization.
- Grant access permissions via the Cloud Organization interface.
Which roles exist in the 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 roles
video.auditor
The video.auditor role enables viewing info on Cloud Video resources and their parameters.
video.viewer
The video.viewer role enables viewing info on Cloud Video resources and their parameters.
This role also includes the video.auditor permissions.
video.editor
The video.editor role allows you to manage Cloud Video resources, as well as broadcast video streams.
Users with this role can:
- View info on Cloud Video resources and their settings, as well as create, modify, and delete such resources.
- Broadcast live video streams from Cloud Video.
This role also includes the video.viewer permissions.
video.admin
The video.admin role allows you to manage Cloud Video resources and access to them.
Users with this role can:
- Manage access of other users to Cloud Video resources.
- View info on Cloud Video resources and their settings, as well as create, modify, and delete such resources.
- Broadcast live video streams from Cloud Video.
This role also includes the video.editor permissions.
Primitive roles
Primitive roles allow users to perform actions in all Yandex Cloud services.
auditor
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.
viewer
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.
editor
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.
admin
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.