Creating a User Group and Assigning Permissions

As a security administrator, you can create user groups and grant them permissions.

Procedure

  1. Choose Management & Deployment > Identity and Access Management.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose User Groups.

  3. On the User Groups page, click Create User Group.

  4. Enter a user group name.

  5. (Optional) Enter a description for the user group.

    Note

    To enable users to directly view their permissions, set a description for the user group. For example, if you assign the Security Administrator role to a user group, you can set any description in the Description text box. For example: Security Administrator: Permissions for creating, deleting, and modifying users as well as granting permissions to users. For details about the permissions for all cloud services, see Permission Description.

  6. Click OK.

    The user group is displayed in the user group list.

  7. In the row containing the user group, click Authorize in the Operation column.

  8. Assign permissions for region-specific projects to the user group.

    1. Select desired permissions for project-level services and click Next.

    2. Set Scope to Regional-specific projects, select the regional project, and click OK.

  9. Assign permissions for global services to the user group.

    1. Select permissions for global services, such as OBS OperateAccess, and click Next.

    2. Select All resources for Scope and click OK.