I just don't understand that why AWS RDS SQL SERVER does not allow any admin level rights to perform. It simply says I do not have permission. I logged in using master username and password.
EXEC sp_addmessage #msgnum = 60000, #severity = 16,
#msgtext = N'The item named %s already exists in %s.',
#lang = 'us_english';
GRANT CONTROL SERVER TO [adminUser];
I am finding pretty hard to figure out , how to deal with this.
This is forcing me to not to use AWS nemore.
RDS is a managed service provided by AWS. The whole point of RDS is that they manage the server for you. In order to ensure they are able to properly manage it, you do not have full admin rights to the server. They give you enough control that they think you require.
If you need more control, or you feel these restrictions are too limiting, then RDS may not be the service for you.
This is for anyone still looking for the solution, probably RDS parameter group will help you. you can update some of these configurations from AWS console with the RDS parameter group. See this article:
https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/5329/setting-sql-server-configuration-options-with-aws-rds-parameter-groups/
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I have some trouble concerning the RDS / Managed AD connection:
I've set up the AWS Managed Microsoft AD and added some users.
Then, I've set up an MS-SQL Database in RDS.
Now, while accessing it via SQL Server Management Studio works flawlessly I simply cannot add the AD users I've created.
I get the following error: The program cannot open the required dialog box because it cannot determine whether the computer named "Network Name Resource" is joined to a domain
Looking at the AD, I can see that the RDS instance is indeed missing.
How can that be? In the RDS console I can it clearly being attached to the Domain?
Have searched this issue for quite some time and hope someone can help me out here...
You must be signed into SSMS via domain account with privileges to add/modify users' logins for that search box to work.
Furthermore, it is non-obvious but you can confirm that your RDS instance is in the domain by using ADAC or ADUC and looking under: AWS Reserved > RDS
I lost my access to my VM instances. I am a student at the University of Melbourne, thus I tried to use GCP with my google account provided by the university (***#student.unimelb.edu.au).
I created my VM instances and I am still able to SSH to my VM, however, I lost my access to it via GCP Dashboard. And here goes the error code:
You are missing at least one of the following required permissions:
Project
resourcemanager.projects.get
And when I checked API with troubleshooter, it says
You do not have the required permissions to make this request. Please
contact your organization administrator.
I don't think I have done anything concerning administrative problems, why did I lose control of my instances?
Your permissions have been limited. like the message say, try to contact your University administrator to know more. If your project is billed to the University, University is organisation admin and can do anything on its own domain.
Is your VM respected the rules of your university? What was its size? did you mining on it? did you install unauthorized software? At administration level, Google provide a lot of metrics and alert about abnormal resource usage. Maybe you broke a rule.
Are you sure you had permission before creating the instance, to view the instance ?
With the error you are talking about maybe you didn't have access from the start itself. You would have been given access to create, but not to list VMs. I found the access-control of GCP very complex, you can have access to many things through CLI, but to get the same through console, you need to be granted more accesses.
Ask your admin to provide your account, one of the viewer or editor or maybe browser roles from here:
https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/access-control-proj
Or may be as guillaume suggested you might have broken a rule ;)
I am getting amazon abuse report regarding my ec2 instance.
Your Amazon EC2 Abuse Report :
has been implicated in activity which resembles attempts to access remote hosts on the internet without authorization. Activity of this nature is forbidden in the AWS Acceptable Use Policy (https://aws.amazon.com/aup/). We've included the original report below for your review.
Please take action to stop the reported activity and reply directly to this email with details of the corrective actions you have taken. If you do not consider the activity described in these reports to be abusive, please reply to this email with details of your use case.
If you're unaware of this activity, it's possible that your environment has been compromised by an external attacker, or a vulnerability is allowing your machine to be used in a way that it was not intended.
How to resolve this?
I would suggest you Stop the instance. If you didn't create the instance, then Terminate it.
The main questions to answer are:
Is there something strange going on?
Did somebody gain access to your instance?
Did somebody gain access to your AWS account?
If you don't remember launching that particular instance, then it would appear that somebody has gotten-hold of your AWS credentials and is using them to create resources in your account. You should change the password and Access Key for the root user and every IAM User to block them out.
If you did create the instance and there is evidence that they have gained access to your instance, then they would have needed to obtain your Private Keypair. You should assume that it is compromised and replace the keypair on any instances that are using it.
If all of this sounds confusing, you should contact AWS Customer Service, tell them about the notice you received, and ask for assistance.
I'm setting up an EC2 instance and an Amazon RDS database to host a .NET website. I want my third-party webmaster to handle its setup, but once he has completed setup and the website is running, I want to remove his access to EC2 and RDS completely.
All I want to give him access to is RDP in EC2 with root access in case he needs to install extra software and the ability to create and edit tables within an SQL database in RDS. He does not have any role in managing and modifying EC2/RDS instances.
I've tried allotting IAM access with groups and all but I can't figure out how to myself retain superuser access while I remove him once he is done setting up the web server and SQL database. How do I give him temporary revokable access while I maintain superuser access that will not be affected even if I remove him from IAM?
Amazon IAM won't help you with what you want to do.
IAM is used when you want to restrict and/or allow access to the upper-level management of the resources through the AWS Management Console and/or the AWS API.
However, what you want to do is control access to the internals of your resources (EC2 instance(s) and RDS instance). For these, you need to do them using their own internal security controls:
For your RDS instance, create a non-admin user with just enough permissions for them to accomplish what they want to do. For example, if your RDS instance is MySQL, then give them INSERT, SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE TABLE, etc. permissions. Do not give them the ability to create/modify users or anything administrative like that. Best practice is give them permissions for as little as possible and add permissions (if you think it's OK) as they ask for them.
For your EC2 instance(s), do not give them root access. Create a non-root user specifically for your webmaster. Give that user "just enough" permissions to install the website. Do not allow them to use yum or apt. Instead, if they need it, they should tell you and you can do it as root.
In both cases, once your webmaster is done, delete their users and close the security group(s) to them.
Never give root/admin access to a third-party. There are many reasons, but the primary ones are these:
With root access, your webmaster could create other users and/or back doors that allow them access even after you revoke their access. Don't give them the chance to do that.
Since you are responsible for these resources, you should be aware of everything that was done to them: all users that get created, all software that's installed, etc.
I need to create a new MySQL user with limited permission on an existing Amazon RDS instance. After encountering a couple error messages I was sort of able to do this using the official MySQL Administrator tool and the user now appears in the list. However, I'm unable to assign any schema privileges as all the users are greyed out. I'm logged in as the "master user" created when the instance was launched. Not sure where to go from here. I do have the RDS command line tools installed but wasn't able to track down anything there either. Ideas
Your best bet is probably to connect to the database with a mysql command line client and call the SQL commands to create a new user and assign him privileges.
For instance, you might run something like this:
mysql -u [your_master_username] -p -h YOURRDSENDPOINT.rds.amazonaws.com
CREATE USER 'jeffrey'#'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'somepassword';
GRANT SELECT ON [your_database].[some_table] TO 'jeffrey'#'%';
On windows you could use the mysql.exe client, wherever that is.
Useful Docs
AWS RDS security groups documentation (a common area of confusion): http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_WorkingWithSecurityGroups.html
User creation documentation: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/create-user.html
Privilege granting documentation: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/grant.html
I know this thread is a couple of years old and well I keep finding it so I wanted to get an update out about the AWS RDS and User Permissions.
You cannot use GRANT ALL for any user with an RDS. When you use the GRANT ALL statement you are also attempting to provide Global (as AWS Calls them Super Permissions) and with the way that the AWS RDS System is setup they do not allow assigning of Global Options to users.
You have to break out the Permissions to the following:
GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,DROP on
This will allow your user to be able to connect to the RDS once the security settings are setup to allow access from your EC2 Instances or from the Internet.
Hope this information helps anyone else that is running into the same issues that I was seeing with the AWS RDS Systems.
Waldo
I created like this:
CREATE USER 'jeffrey'#'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'somepassword';
GRANT SELECT ON mydatabase.* TO 'jeffrey'#'localhost';
But then, AWS rejected to login to that user. And I tried to change Admin privileges, but not success. And I change 'localhost' to '%' through mysql workbench. (or you can remove the user and recreate) like :
CREATE USER 'jeffrey'#'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'somepassword';
GRANT SELECT ON mydatabase.* TO 'jeffrey'#'%';
Then only I was able to loggin through this new user.
In addition:
Once you done this change, then your database allowed to connect from any ip. If you need to improve the security and restrict the accessing ip (Ex: if this is a staging database), you can set the bind-address in my.cnf file in your server.
bind-address = your.ip.add.ress
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I had the most success using MySQL Workbench and executing raw SQL against RDS:
CREATE USER 'foo'#'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
The bigger problem was permissions. Initially I tried:
Grant ALL on *.* to 'foo'#'localhost'
... which results in an Access Denied error.
Error Code: 1045. Access denied for user 'foo'#'%' (using password: YES)
The troublesome permission is "super" which RDS doesn't give me, and in turn I can't grant. As a result, I'm stuck doing permissions by hand:
Grant SELECT on *.* to 'foo'#'localhost';
Grant INSERT on *.* to 'foo'#'localhost';
Grant CREATE on *.* to 'foo'#'localhost';
I have used mySQL workbench and it works fine. just go to management/Users and Privileges, press "Add Account" button bottom left, and configure. You cannot give SUPER privileges, but most of the rest