Method: projects.serviceAccounts.setIamPolicy

Sets the IAM policy that is attached to a ServiceAccount.

Use this method to grant or revoke access to the service account. For example, you could grant a principal the ability to impersonate the service account.

This method does not enable the service account to access other resources. To grant roles to a service account on a resource, follow these steps:

  1. Call the resource's getIamPolicy method to get its current IAM policy.
  2. Edit the policy so that it binds the service account to an IAM role for the resource.
  3. Call the resource's setIamPolicy method to update its IAM policy.

For detailed instructions, see Manage access to project, folders, and organizations or Manage access to other resources.

HTTP request

POST https://iam.googleapis.com/v1/{resource=projects/*/serviceAccounts/*}:setIamPolicy

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
resource

string

REQUIRED: The resource for which the policy is being specified. See Resource names for the appropriate value for this field.

Request body

The request body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "policy": {
    object (Policy)
  },
  "updateMask": string
}
Fields
policy

object (Policy)

REQUIRED: The complete policy to be applied to the resource. The size of the policy is limited to a few 10s of KB. An empty policy is a valid policy but certain Google Cloud services (such as Projects) might reject them.
updateMask

string (FieldMask format)

OPTIONAL: A FieldMask specifying which fields of the policy to modify. Only the fields in the mask will be modified. If no mask is provided, the following default mask is used:

paths: "bindings, etag"

This is a comma-separated list of fully qualified names of fields. Example: "user.displayName,photo".

Response body

If successful, the response body contains an instance of Policy.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/iam
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.