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ACL Overview

Access Control List (ACL) is a resource-based access policy option that manages access to buckets and objects. You can grant read and write permissions to other root accounts, sub-accounts and user groups using ACLs.

Unlike an access policy, an ACL in Tencent Cloud has the following limits on the permissions:

• Only supports permission grants to Tencent Cloud accounts.
• Only supports five operation sets: Read Objects, Write to Objects, Read ACLs, Write to ACLs, and All Permissions.
• Does not support additional conditions for the ACL rules to take effect.
• Does not support explicit deny.

Control granularities supported by ACLs

• Bucket
• Object Key Prefix
• Object

Control Elements of ACLs

When a bucket or object is created, the root account to which the bucket or object's resources belong has full access to these resources, and the access cannot be modified or deleted. You can use ACLs to grant other Tencent Cloud accounts the access permissions.
The following is an ACL example for a bucket. 100000000001 is the root account, 100000000011 is its sub-account, and 100000000002 is another root account. The ACL contains an Owner element that identifies the bucket owner, who has full access to the bucket. The Grant element grants anonymous read permission, which is expressed as READ permission of http://cam.qcloud.com/groups/global/AllUsers.

<AccessControlPolicy>
<Owner>
  <ID>qcs::cam::uin/100000000001:uin/100000000001</ID>
  <DisplayName>qcs::cam::uin/100000000001:uin/100000000001</DisplayName>
</Owner>
<AccessControlList>
  <Grant>
    <Grantee xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="RootAccount">
      <ID>qcs::cam::uin/100000000001:uin/100000000001</ID>
      <DisplayName>qcs::cam::uin/100000000001:uin/100000000001</DisplayName>
    </Grantee>
    <Permission>FULL_CONTROL</Permission>
  </Grant>
  <Grant>
    <Grantee xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="Group">
      <URI>http://cam.qcloud.com/groups/global/AllUsers</URI>
    </Grantee>
    <Permission>READ</Permission>
  </Grant>
</AccessControlList>
</AccessControlPolicy>

Grantees

Root account
You can grant access permissions to other root accounts using the definition of the principal in CAM, as described below:

qcs::cam::uin/100000000002:uin/100000000002

Sub-account
You can grant access permissions to sub-accounts (such as 100000000011) under your root account or those under other root accounts using the definition of the principal in CAM, as described below:

qcs::cam::uin/100000000001:uin/100000000011

Anonymous user
You can grant access permissions to anonymous users using the definition of the principal in CAM, as described below:

http://cam.qcloud.com/groups/global/AllUsers

Operation Set

The operation sets supported by ACLs are listed below.

Operation Set	Access to Bucket	Access to Prefix	Access to Object
READ	Lists and reads objects in the bucket	Lists and reads objects in the directory	Reads objects
WRITE	Creates, overwrites and deletes any object in the bucket	Creates, overwrites and deletes any object in the directory	Not supported
READ_ACP	Reads the ACL of bucket	Reads the ACL in the directory	Reads the ACL of object
WRITE_ACP	Modifies the ACL of bucket	Modifies the ACL in the directory	Modifies the ACL of object
FULL_CONTROL	Any operations on the bucket and objects	Any operations on the objects in the directory	Any operations on the objects

Standard ACL

COS supports a range of predefined authorizations, which are called standard ACLs. The meanings of the standard ACLs are listed below.

Note：

A root account always has the FULL_CONTROL permission, which is not described here.

Standard ACL	Description
(Null)	This is the default policy. Others do not have permissions. The permissions for resources are inherited from upper level.
private	Other users do not have permissions
public-read	Anonymous user group has the READ permission
public-read-write	Anonymous user group has the READ and WRITE permissions. This is not recommended for buckets.

Directions

Using ACLs in the console

Set an ACL for a bucket
The following example grants another root account the read access to a bucket:

Set an ACL for an object
The following example grants another root account the read access to an object:

Note：

If the message You have no access to it appears when you access a bucket or object using a sub-account, grant the sub-account the access to the bucket through the root account. For more information, see Accessing Bucket List Using Sub-Account.

Using ACLs via APIs

Bucket ACL

API	Operation	Description
PUT Bucket acl	Setting bucket ACL	Sets the ACL for a specified bucket
GET Bucket acl	Querying bucket ACL	Queries the ACL of a bucket

Object ACL

API	Operation	Description
PUT Object acl	Setting object ACL	Sets the ACL for a specified object in a bucket
GET Object acl	Querying object ACL	Queries the ACL of an object