You can manage access permissions for a Swift tenant account by importing federated groups or creating local groups. At least one group must have the Administrator permission, which is required to manage the containers and objects for a Swift tenant account.
Before you begin
- You must be signed in to the Tenant Manager using a supported browser.
- You must be the root user or have the Root Access permission.
- If you plan to import a federated group, you have configured identity federation and the federated group already exists in the configured identity source.
Procedure
- Select .
- Click Add.
- For the group's type, select Local to create a local group, or select Federated to import a group from the previously configured identity source.
Attention: If single sign-on (SSO) is enabled for your StorageGRID system, users belonging to local groups will not be able to sign in to the Tenant Manager, although they can use client applications to manage the tenant's resources, based on group permissions.
- Enter the group's name.
If you selected... |
Enter... |
Local |
Both a display name and a unique name for this group. You can edit the display name later. |
Federated |
The unique name of the federated group. Note: For Active Directory, the unique name is the name associated with the sAMAccountName attribute. For OpenLDAP, the unique name is the name associated with the uid attribute.
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- In the Management Permissions section, select Root Access if you want users in this group to be able to sign in to Tenant Manager or to the Tenant Management API.
Attention: Users belonging to groups that do not have the Root Access permission receive an error if they try to sign in to the tenant account.

- In the Swift Permissions section, select Administrator if you want users in this group to be able to use the Swift REST API to create and manage Swift containers and objects.
Attention: Users must have the Administrator permission to perform operations with the Swift REST API. The Root Access permission does not allow Swift users to use the Swift REST API.
- Click Save.
New group policies might take up to 15 minutes to take effect because of caching.