The PubSub service account is service-<PROJECT_NUMBER>#gcp-sa-pubsub.iam.gserviceaccount.com
The command described here to create an IAM policy binding succeeds, which shows that the service account exists.
But it does not appear in
the list of service accounts in the console https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/serviceaccounts?project=<PROJECT> (screenshot below)
nor in the IAM permissions list https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/iam?project=<PROJECT> , even when I check "Include Google-provided role grants"
nor in the output of gcloud iam service-accounts list --project <PROJECT>.
Where can I see this service account listed?
The service-<PROJECT_NUMBER>#gcp-sa-pubsub.iam.gserviceaccount.com is a Google managed service account, therefore, you can see it in the list YOUR PROJECT service accounts.
In addition, you have granted this service account on a TOPIC resource and not on a PROJECT resource. Therefore, when you go on the iam-admin page, you can see the service account at the PROJECT ressource.
Anyway, you could be able to view it in the iam-admin page by checking Include Google-provided role grants
Because you have granted the service account at TOPIC resource level, you can see it in the TOPIC page
Go to the topic page, check a topic and go to the right-hand panel, in the permission section and look at the role that you grant on the service account. You will find it
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I want to run my google cloud server everyday on specific times. I set up an instance schedule for that but when i try to link my vm to the schedule it gives me the following error:
Compute Engine System service account service-390738840624#compute-system.iam.gserviceaccount.com needs to have [compute.instances.start] permissions applied in order to perform this operation.
Does anyone know how to solve this?
The service account service-390738840624#compute-system.iam.gserviceaccount.com does not have a role with the permission compute.instances.start.
The following IAM roles have the required permission:
roles/compute.instanceAdmin
roles/compute.instanceAdmin.v1
The following command will add the first role to the service account:
Replace $PROJECT_ID with your Project ID (not the project name).
gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding $PROJECT_ID \
--member serviceAccount:service-390738840624#compute-system.iam.gserviceaccount.com \
--role roles/compute.instanceAdmin
Your account for which you are running the command, must have the privilege to grant/modify IAM roles on a service account. If you do not have the correct permissions, you will need to ask the Project Owner or Editor to perform this for you.
The CLI answer works but in case you dont use terminal here are the steps directly on the platform:
go to IAM
on the right side of the screen select "Include Google-provided role grants"
Find Principal that contain text "compute-system.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
edit (with little pen on the right)
from the popup shown select "+Add another role", select role "Compute Instance Admin" (can show beta or v1 in the brackets)
this fixed my issue
In order to complete the task, GCP is asking you to give the service account “service-390738840624#compute-system.iam.gserviceaccount.com” access to use “compute.instances.start” but the service account doesn't have the right permissions to execute the task.
When you set up an instance to run as a service account, you determine
the level of access the service account has by the IAM roles that you
grant to the service account. If the service account has no IAM roles,
then no API methods can be run by the service account on that
instance.
To grant, change, and revoke access to a single service account, please refer to this guide.
Be aware that to manage access to a service account, you need a role that includes the following permissions:
*iam.serviceAccounts.get
iam.serviceAccounts.list
iam.serviceAccounts.getIamPolicy
iam.serviceAccounts.setIamPolicy*
If you want to know which are the permission included in your account, please refer to this guide.
If you don't have the appropriate access to grant permissions, please refer to your system administrator.
To know more about compute engine roles and permissions, please follow this link.
If you wish to know more about services accounts, please follow this link.
To know more about the process of scheduling compute instances with Google Scheduler, please follow this link.
I have a problem when creating a Role I am getting an error that says “Cannot attach a Service Role Policy to a Customer Role”
In fact, there is something called Customer Managed Role, which the above error seems to display as 'Customer Role'.
From AWS documentation (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_terms-and-concepts.html#iam-term-service-role)
A role that a service assumes to perform actions in your account on your behalf. When you set up some AWS service environments, you must define a role for the service to assume. This service role must include all the permissions required for the service to access the AWS resources that it needs.
Now if you create a role, which isn't a service role, and attach permissions yourself, it appears under what AWS shows as Customer Managed Role (Screenshot below). If you look carefully, the service roles in AWS show the AWS box icon and the Customer Managed ones don't.
Reason: I was facing the above error as well and the reason was that my Role had custom inlined policies attached. If a Role has custom attached policies (inlined), AWS doesn't let you attach the Service Roles to it. You can filter the roles and find out what's causing the issue.
I hope this is documented somewhere as I was scratching my head for quite some time on this.
I just created a new account in my organization and I provided a custom IAM role.
The problem is that I can't find the role in IAM, I remember then name and in any case there are few roles there so I can check.
I double checked in cloud trail the IAM role name, and I search for it in IAM and I still can't find it.
Is there something I'm missing or some workaround?
Background:
According to the documentation:
How can I access an AWS account that was created in my organization?
As part of AWS account creation, AWS Organizations creates an IAM role
with full administrative permissions in the new account. IAM users and
IAM roles with appropriate permissions in the master account can
assume this IAM role to gain access to the newly created account.
Update:
The steps of the link below also helped me understand the issue
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/tutorial_cross-account-with-roles.html
As per the documentation, the role is created in the New account. You can assumeRole by sts service to the role from the master account, so this is the reason you cannot find the role in your account.
You first assumeRole and then you can do the administrative job for the new account. You can log in through this link with your role and account.
https://signin.aws.amazon.com/switchrole?roleName=<roleName>&account=<newAccountId>
Be aware that you should be logged in to your master account first. Replace <roleName> and 12-digits <newAccountId> for yours.
In my AWS console (IAM -> Access Management -> Roles), I noticed a service-linked role among the list of all the roles.
How do I determine what AWS resources can assume this service-linked role. I'm asking because I'm auditing a system and trying to get a handle on what permissions may be in use elsewhere. Someone (don't know who) created it for a reason. I'd like to figure out why.
How can I tell what is using this service-linked role?
Service Linked roles are by-design used by one particular AWS service.
In the AWS Management Console for the IAM service, you can click on a role and view the "Summary". The summary contains a path attribute which looks like the following: /aws-service-role/access-analyzer.amazonaws.com/.
In this example you can see that the service which uses this role is called Access Analyzer.
You can get information on the Service-Linked role for that particular service in the docs. [1]
Navigate to section "Security, Identity, and Compliance Services" -> search for row "IAM Access Analyzer" and click on the link Yes in the "Service-linked roles" column of the table. The linked docs usually tell you why AWS sets up this particulal service linked role and which permissions it includes.
General information about service linked roles is given by the IAM docs on "Service-Linked Roles" [2] and the IAM "Troubleshooting" guide [3].
If you want to know when a particular service linked role was last used in your account, use the Access Analyzer [4].
There are currently 3 posts on the topic service linked roles from the AWS official blog [5]. Two of them are probably related to your question:
The blog post "Greater Transparency into Actions AWS Services Perform on Your Behalf by Using AWS CloudTrail
" [6] goes into detail how to monitor the actions which are performed by the role. This is the procedure also suggested by #jellycsc's answer I guess.
Excerpt from the blog post [6]:
In this blog post, I demonstrate how to view CloudTrail logs so that you can more easily monitor and audit AWS services performing actions on your behalf. First, I show how AWS creates a service-linked role in your account automatically when you configure an AWS service that supports service-linked roles. Next, I show how you can view the policies of a service-linked role that grants an AWS service permission to perform actions on your behalf. Finally, I use the configured AWS service to perform an action and show you how the action appears in your CloudTrail logs.
The blog post "Now Use AWS IAM to Delete a Service-Linked Role When You No Longer Require an AWS Service to Perform Actions on Your Behalf" [7] makes the following statement:
When you delete a service-linked role, the linked service no longer has the permissions to perform actions on your behalf. To ensure your AWS services continue to function as expected when you delete a service-linked role, IAM validates that you no longer have resources that require the service-linked role to function properly. This prevents you from inadvertently revoking permissions required by an AWS service to manage your existing AWS resources and helps you maintain your resources in a consistent state. If there are any resources in your account that require the service-linked role, you will receive an error when you attempt to delete the service-linked role, and the service-linked role will remain in your account. If you do not have any resources that require the service-linked role, you can delete the service-linked role and IAM will remove the service-linked role from your account.
References
[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_aws-services-that-work-with-iam.html#admin_svcs
[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/using-service-linked-roles.html#create-service-linked-role
[3] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/troubleshoot_roles.html#troubleshoot_roles_new-role-appeared
[4] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_access-advisor.html?icmpid=docs_iam_console
[5] https://aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/security/tag/service-linked-roles/
[6] https://aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/security/get-greater-transparency-into-actions-aws-services-perform-on-your-behalf-by-using-aws-cloudtrail/
[7] https://aws.amazon.com/de/blogs/security/now-use-aws-iam-to-delete-a-service-linked-role-when-you-no-longer-require-an-aws-service-to-perform-actions-on-your-behalf/
Use CloudTrail. Here is the doc. You might want to explore more of it.
I am trying to deploy a service with a non-default service account by following this guide and it says I need "the iam.serviceAccounts.actAs permission on the service account being deployed". The service account I am using is #cloudbuild.gserviceaccount.com, but I don't see the option to add it on my project's Permissions page.
The key point is that the service account is a resource. You need to add an IAM role for your identity to the service account (the resource). This grants you permissions on the resource (service account).
Open the Google Cloud Console. Go to IAM & Admin -> Service accounts.
Find the service account. Tick the box to the left of the service account.
In the right-hand "Permissions" panel, click ADD MEMBER
Add your IAM member email address. For the role select Service Accounts -> Service Account User.
Click Save
You can also you the CLI:
gcloud iam service-accounts add-iam-policy-binding [SERVICE_ACCOUNT] --member [MEMBER_EMAIL] --role roles/iam.serviceAccountUser
gcloud iam service-accounts add-iam-policy-binding
On the service account you are using, you need to give yourself the role of Service Account User.
Go to IAM -> Service Accounts -> (Your service Account) -> Permissions -> Grant Access
(By doing this you are granting yourself access to use this service account)
See also:
Unable to create a new Cloud Function - cloud-client-api-gae
Cloud Build fails to deploy to Google App Engine - You do not have permission to act as #appspot.gserviceaccount.com