Known Issues
If you have multiple users managing different Tencent Cloud services such as CVM, VPC, and TencentDB, and they all share your Tencent Cloud account access key, you may face the following problems:
Your key will be easily compromised because it is shared by several users.
Your users might introduce security risks from misoperations due to the lack of user access control.
Solution
You can mitigate these issues by using sub-accounts to allow different users to manage different services. By default, sub-accounts do not have the rights to use cloud services or access related resources. Therefore, you need to create policies that grant sub-accounts the necessary permissions to use the resources they require.
Cloud Access Management (CAM) is a web-based Tencent Cloud service that helps you securely manage and control access permissions to your Tencent Cloud resources. Using CAM, you can create, manage, and terminate users (groups), and control the Tencent Cloud resources that can be used by the specified user through identity and policy management.
When using CAM, you can associate a policy with a user or user group to allow or forbid them to use specified resources to complete specified tasks. For more information on CAM policies, see Syntax Logic.
If you do not need to manage the access permission to TencentDB resources for sub-accounts, you can skip this chapter. This will not affect your understanding and usage of other parts in the documentation.
Getting Started
A CAM policy must authorize or deny the use of one or more TencentDB operations. At the same time, it must specify the resources that can be used for the operations (which can be all resources or partial resources for certain operations). A policy can also include the conditions set for the manipulated resources.
Note
We recommend that you manage TencentDB resources and authorize TencentDB operations through CAM policies. Although the user experience does not change for existing users who are granted permissions by project, we do not recommend that you continue to manage resources and authorize operations in a project-based manner.
Effectiveness conditions cannot be set in TencentDB for the time being.
Task scheduling | Document |
Basic policy structure | |
Operation definition in a policy | |
Resource definition in a policy | |
Resource-level permission supported by TencentDB | |
Console Samples |