List and edit service accounts

This page explains how to list and edit service accounts using the Identity and Access Management (IAM) API, the Google Cloud console, and the gcloud command- line tool.

Before you begin

Enable the IAM API.
Enable the API
Set up authentication.

Select the tab for how you plan to use the samples on this page:
Console

When you use the Google Cloud console to access Google Cloud services and APIs, you don't need to set up authentication.

gcloud

In the Google Cloud console, activate Cloud Shell.

Activate Cloud Shell

At the bottom of the Google Cloud console, a Cloud Shell session starts and displays a command-line prompt. Cloud Shell is a shell environment with the Google Cloud CLI already installed and with values already set for your current project. It can take a few seconds for the session to initialize.
C#

To use the .NET samples on this page in a local development environment, install and initialize the gcloud CLI, and then set up Application Default Credentials with your user credentials.
1. Install the Google Cloud CLI.
2. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:
  gcloud init
3. If you're using a local shell, then create local authentication credentials for your user account:
  gcloud auth application-default login
  You don't need to do this if you're using Cloud Shell.
For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment in the Google Cloud authentication documentation.
C++

To use the C++ samples on this page in a local development environment, install and initialize the gcloud CLI, and then set up Application Default Credentials with your user credentials.
1. Install the Google Cloud CLI.
2. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:
  gcloud init
3. If you're using a local shell, then create local authentication credentials for your user account:
  gcloud auth application-default login
  You don't need to do this if you're using Cloud Shell.
For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment in the Google Cloud authentication documentation.
Go

To use the Go samples on this page in a local development environment, install and initialize the gcloud CLI, and then set up Application Default Credentials with your user credentials.
1. Install the Google Cloud CLI.
2. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:
  gcloud init
3. If you're using a local shell, then create local authentication credentials for your user account:
  gcloud auth application-default login
  You don't need to do this if you're using Cloud Shell.
For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment in the Google Cloud authentication documentation.
Java

To use the Java samples on this page in a local development environment, install and initialize the gcloud CLI, and then set up Application Default Credentials with your user credentials.
1. Install the Google Cloud CLI.
2. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:
  gcloud init
3. If you're using a local shell, then create local authentication credentials for your user account:
  gcloud auth application-default login
  You don't need to do this if you're using Cloud Shell.
For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment in the Google Cloud authentication documentation.
Python

To use the Python samples on this page in a local development environment, install and initialize the gcloud CLI, and then set up Application Default Credentials with your user credentials.
1. Install the Google Cloud CLI.
2. To initialize the gcloud CLI, run the following command:
  gcloud init
3. If you're using a local shell, then create local authentication credentials for your user account:
  gcloud auth application-default login
  You don't need to do this if you're using Cloud Shell.
For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment in the Google Cloud authentication documentation.
REST

To use the REST API samples on this page in a local development environment, you use the credentials you provide to the gcloud CLI.
For more information, see Authenticate for using REST in the Google Cloud authentication documentation.
Understand IAM service accounts

Required roles

To get the permissions that you need to manage service accounts, ask your administrator to grant you the following IAM roles on the project:

To view service accounts: View Service Accounts (roles/iam.serviceAccountViewer)
To edit service accounts: Service Account Admin (roles/iam.serviceAccountAdmin)

For more information about granting roles, see Manage access to projects, folders, and organizations.

You might also be able to get the required permissions through custom roles or other predefined roles.

To learn more about these roles, see Service Accounts roles.

IAM basic roles also contain permissions to manage service accounts. You should not grant basic roles in a production environment, but you can grant them in a development or test environment.

Listing service accounts

You can list the user-managed service accounts in a project to help you audit service accounts and keys, or as part of a custom tool for managing service accounts.

You can't list the service agents that might appear in your project's allow policy and audit logs. Service agents aren't located in your project, and you can't access them directly.

Console

In the Google Cloud console, go to the Service accounts page.

Go to Service accounts
Select a project.

The Service accounts page lists all of the user-managed service accounts in the project you selected.

gcloud

In the Google Cloud console, activate Cloud Shell.

Activate Cloud Shell

At the bottom of the Google Cloud console, a Cloud Shell session starts and displays a command-line prompt. Cloud Shell is a shell environment with the Google Cloud CLI already installed and with values already set for your current project. It can take a few seconds for the session to initialize.

Execute the gcloud iam service-accounts list command to list all service accounts in a project.

Command:

gcloud iam service-accounts list

The output is the list of all user-managed service accounts in the project:

NAME                    EMAIL
SA_DISPLAY_NAME_1    SA_NAME_1@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com
SA_DISPLAY_NAME_2    SA_NAME_2@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com

C++

To learn how to install and use the client library for IAM, see IAM client libraries. For more information, see the IAM C++ API reference documentation.

To authenticate to IAM, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Before you begin.

namespace iam = ::google::cloud::iam_admin_v1;
[](std::string const& project_id) {
  iam::IAMClient client(iam::MakeIAMConnection());
  int count = 0;
  for (auto& sa : client.ListServiceAccounts("projects/" + project_id)) {
    if (!sa) throw std::move(sa).status();
    std::cout << "ServiceAccount successfully retrieved: " << sa->name()
              << "\n";
    ++count;
  }
  if (count == 0) {
    std::cout << "No service accounts found in project: " << project_id
              << "\n";
  }
}

C#

To learn how to install and use the client library for IAM, see IAM client libraries. For more information, see the IAM C# API reference documentation.

To authenticate to IAM, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Before you begin.


using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Google.Apis.Auth.OAuth2;
using Google.Apis.Iam.v1;
using Google.Apis.Iam.v1.Data;

public partial class ServiceAccounts
{
    public static IList<ServiceAccount> ListServiceAccounts(string projectId)
    {
        var credential = GoogleCredential.GetApplicationDefault()
            .CreateScoped(IamService.Scope.CloudPlatform);
        var service = new IamService(new IamService.Initializer
        {
            HttpClientInitializer = credential
        });

        var response = service.Projects.ServiceAccounts.List(
            "projects/" + projectId).Execute();
        foreach (ServiceAccount account in response.Accounts)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Name: " + account.Name);
            Console.WriteLine("Display Name: " + account.DisplayName);
            Console.WriteLine("Email: " + account.Email);
            Console.WriteLine();
        }
        return response.Accounts;
    }
}

Go

To learn how to install and use the client library for IAM, see IAM client libraries. For more information, see the IAM Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to IAM, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Before you begin.

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	iam "google.golang.org/api/iam/v1"
)

// listServiceAccounts lists a project's service accounts.
func listServiceAccounts(w io.Writer, projectID string) ([]*iam.ServiceAccount, error) {
	ctx := context.Background()
	service, err := iam.NewService(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("iam.NewService: %w", err)
	}

	response, err := service.Projects.ServiceAccounts.List("projects/" + projectID).Do()
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Projects.ServiceAccounts.List: %w", err)
	}
	for _, account := range response.Accounts {
		fmt.Fprintf(w, "Listing service account: %v\n", account.Name)
	}
	return response.Accounts, nil
}

Java

To learn how to install and use the client library for IAM, see IAM client libraries. For more information, see the IAM Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to IAM, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Before you begin.


import com.google.cloud.iam.admin.v1.IAMClient;
import com.google.iam.admin.v1.ServiceAccount;
import java.io.IOException;

public class ListServiceAccounts {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    // TODO(Developer): Replace the below variables before running.
    String projectId = "your-project-id";

    listServiceAccounts(projectId);
  }

  // Lists all service accounts for the current project.
  public static IAMClient.ListServiceAccountsPagedResponse listServiceAccounts(String projectId)
          throws IOException {
    // Initialize client that will be used to send requests.
    // This client only needs to be created once, and can be reused for multiple requests.
    try (IAMClient iamClient = IAMClient.create()) {
      IAMClient.ListServiceAccountsPagedResponse response =
              iamClient.listServiceAccounts(String.format("projects/%s", projectId));

      for (ServiceAccount account : response.iterateAll()) {
        System.out.println("Name: " + account.getName());
        System.out.println("Display name: " + account.getDisplayName());
        System.out.println("Email: " + account.getEmail() + "\n");
      }

      return response;
    }
  }
}

Python

To learn how to install and use the client library for IAM, see IAM client libraries. For more information, see the IAM Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to IAM, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Before you begin.

from typing import List

from google.cloud import iam_admin_v1
from google.cloud.iam_admin_v1 import types


def list_service_accounts(project_id: str) -> List[iam_admin_v1.ServiceAccount]:
    """
    Get list of project service accounts.

    project_id: ID or number of the Google Cloud project you want to use.
    """

    iam_admin_client = iam_admin_v1.IAMClient()
    request = types.ListServiceAccountsRequest()
    request.name = f"projects/{project_id}"

    accounts = iam_admin_client.list_service_accounts(request=request)
    return accounts.accounts

REST

The serviceAccounts.list method lists every user-managed service account in your project.

Before using any of the request data, make the following replacements:

PROJECT_ID: Your Google Cloud project ID. Project IDs are alphanumeric strings, like my-project.

HTTP method and URL:

GET https://iam.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/serviceAccounts

To send your request, expand one of these options:

curl (Linux, macOS, or Cloud Shell)

Note: The following command assumes that you have logged in to the gcloud CLI with your user account by running gcloud init or gcloud auth login , or by using Cloud Shell, which automatically logs you into the gcloud CLI . You can check the currently active account by running gcloud auth list.

Execute the following command:

curl -X GET \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \
     "https://iam.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/serviceAccounts"

PowerShell (Windows)

Note: The following command assumes that you have logged in to the gcloud CLI with your user account by running gcloud init or gcloud auth login . You can check the currently active account by running gcloud auth list.

Execute the following command:

$cred = gcloud auth print-access-token
$headers = @{ "Authorization" = "Bearer $cred" }

Invoke-WebRequest `
    -Method GET `
    -Headers $headers `
    -Uri "https://iam.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/serviceAccounts" | Select-Object -Expand Content

APIs Explorer (browser)

Open the method reference page. The APIs Explorer panel opens on the right side of the page. You can interact with this tool to send requests. Complete any required fields and click Execute.

You should receive a JSON response similar to the following:

{
  "accounts": [
    {
      "name": "projects/my-project/serviceAccounts/sa-1@my-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com",
      "projectId": "my-project",
      "uniqueId": "123456789012345678901",
      "email": "sa-1@my-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com",
      "description": "My first service account",
      "displayName": "Service account 1",
      "etag": "BwUpTsLVUkQ=",
      "oauth2ClientId": "987654321098765432109"
    },
    {
      "name": "projects/my-project/serviceAccounts/sa-2@my-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com",
      "projectId": "my-project",
      "uniqueId": "234567890123456789012",
      "email": "sa-2@my-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com",
      "description": "My second service account",
      "displayName": "Service account 2",
      "etag": "UkQpTwBVUsL=",
      "oauth2ClientId": "876543210987654321098"
    }
  ]
}

Edit a service account

The display name (friendly name) and description of a service account are commonly used to capture additional information about the service account, such as the purpose of the service account or a contact person for the account.

Console

In the Google Cloud console, go to the Service accounts page.

Go to Service accounts
Select a project.
Click the email address of the service account that you want to rename.
Enter the new name in the Name box, then click Save.

gcloud

In the Google Cloud console, activate Cloud Shell.

Activate Cloud Shell

At the bottom of the Google Cloud console, a Cloud Shell session starts and displays a command-line prompt. Cloud Shell is a shell environment with the Google Cloud CLI already installed and with values already set for your current project. It can take a few seconds for the session to initialize.

Execute the gcloud iam service-accounts update command to update a service account.

Command:

gcloud iam service-accounts update 

    SA_NAME@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com 

    --description="UPDATED_SA_DESCRIPTION" 

    --display-name="UPDATED_DISPLAY_NAME"

The output is the renamed service account:

description: UPDATED_SA_DESCRIPTION
displayName: UPDATED_DISPLAY_NAME
name: projects/PROJECT_ID/serviceAccounts/SA_NAME@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com

C++

To learn how to install and use the client library for IAM, see IAM client libraries. For more information, see the IAM C++ API reference documentation.

To authenticate to IAM, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Before you begin.

namespace iam = ::google::cloud::iam_admin_v1;
[](std::string const& name, std::string const& display_name) {
  iam::IAMClient client(iam::MakeIAMConnection());
  google::iam::admin::v1::PatchServiceAccountRequest request;
  google::iam::admin::v1::ServiceAccount service_account;
  service_account.set_name(name);
  service_account.set_display_name(display_name);
  google::protobuf::FieldMask update_mask;
  *update_mask.add_paths() = "display_name";
  *request.mutable_service_account() = service_account;
  *request.mutable_update_mask() = update_mask;
  auto response = client.PatchServiceAccount(request);
  if (!response) throw std::move(response).status();
  std::cout << "ServiceAccount successfully updated: "
            << response->DebugString() << "\n";
}

C#

To learn how to install and use the client library for IAM, see IAM client libraries. For more information, see the IAM C# API reference documentation.

To authenticate to IAM, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Before you begin.


using System;
using Google.Apis.Auth.OAuth2;
using Google.Apis.Iam.v1;
using Google.Apis.Iam.v1.Data;

public partial class ServiceAccounts
{
    public static ServiceAccount RenameServiceAccount(string email,
        string newDisplayName)
    {
        var credential = GoogleCredential.GetApplicationDefault()
            .CreateScoped(IamService.Scope.CloudPlatform);
        var service = new IamService(new IamService.Initializer
        {
            HttpClientInitializer = credential
        });

        // First, get a ServiceAccount using List() or Get().
        string resource = "projects/-/serviceAccounts/" + email;
        var serviceAccount = service.Projects.ServiceAccounts.Get(resource)
            .Execute();
        // Then you can update the display name.
        serviceAccount.DisplayName = newDisplayName;
        serviceAccount = service.Projects.ServiceAccounts.Update(
            serviceAccount, resource).Execute();
        Console.WriteLine($"Updated display name for {serviceAccount.Email} " +
            "to: " + serviceAccount.DisplayName);
        return serviceAccount;
    }
}

Go

To learn how to install and use the client library for IAM, see IAM client libraries. For more information, see the IAM Go API reference documentation.

To authenticate to IAM, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Before you begin.

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"io"

	iam "google.golang.org/api/iam/v1"
)

// renameServiceAccount renames a service account.
func renameServiceAccount(w io.Writer, email, newDisplayName string) (*iam.ServiceAccount, error) {
	ctx := context.Background()
	service, err := iam.NewService(ctx)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("iam.NewService: %w", err)
	}

	// First, get a ServiceAccount using List() or Get().
	resource := "projects/-/serviceAccounts/" + email
	serviceAccount, err := service.Projects.ServiceAccounts.Get(resource).Do()
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Projects.ServiceAccounts.Get: %w", err)
	}
	// Then you can update the display name.
	serviceAccount.DisplayName = newDisplayName
	serviceAccount, err = service.Projects.ServiceAccounts.Update(resource, serviceAccount).Do()
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Projects.ServiceAccounts.Update: %w", err)
	}

	fmt.Fprintf(w, "Updated service account: %v", serviceAccount.Email)
	return serviceAccount, nil
}

Java

To learn how to install and use the client library for IAM, see IAM client libraries. For more information, see the IAM Java API reference documentation.

To authenticate to IAM, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Before you begin.


import com.google.cloud.iam.admin.v1.IAMClient;
import com.google.iam.admin.v1.GetServiceAccountRequest;
import com.google.iam.admin.v1.PatchServiceAccountRequest;
import com.google.iam.admin.v1.ServiceAccount;
import com.google.iam.admin.v1.ServiceAccountName;
import com.google.protobuf.FieldMask;
import java.io.IOException;

public class RenameServiceAccount {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    // TODO(developer): Replace the variables before running the sample.
    String projectId = "your-project-id";
    String serviceAccountName = "my-service-account-name";
    String displayName = "your-new-display-name";

    renameServiceAccount(projectId, serviceAccountName, displayName);
  }

  // Changes a service account's display name.
  public static ServiceAccount renameServiceAccount(String projectId, String serviceAccountName,
                                                    String displayName) throws IOException {
    // Construct the service account email.
    // You can modify the ".iam.gserviceaccount.com" to match the service account name in which
    // you want to delete the key.
    // See, https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/creating-managing-service-account-keys?hl=en#deleting
    String serviceAccountEmail = serviceAccountName + "@" + projectId + ".iam.gserviceaccount.com";

    // Initialize client that will be used to send requests.
    // This client only needs to be created once, and can be reused for multiple requests.
    try (IAMClient iamClient = IAMClient.create()) {
      // First, get a service account using getServiceAccount or listServiceAccounts
      GetServiceAccountRequest serviceAccountRequest = GetServiceAccountRequest.newBuilder()
              .setName(ServiceAccountName.of(projectId, serviceAccountEmail).toString())
              .build();
      ServiceAccount serviceAccount = iamClient.getServiceAccount(serviceAccountRequest);

      // You can patch only the `display_name` and `description` fields. You must use
      //  the `update_mask` field to specify which of these fields you want to patch.
      serviceAccount = serviceAccount.toBuilder().setDisplayName(displayName).build();
      PatchServiceAccountRequest patchServiceAccountRequest =
              PatchServiceAccountRequest.newBuilder()
                      .setServiceAccount(serviceAccount)
                      .setUpdateMask(FieldMask.newBuilder().addPaths("display_name").build())
                      .build();
      serviceAccount = iamClient.patchServiceAccount(patchServiceAccountRequest);

      System.out.println(
              "Updated display name for "
                      + serviceAccount.getName()
                      + " to: "
                      + serviceAccount.getDisplayName());
      return serviceAccount;
    }
  }
}

Python

To learn how to install and use the client library for IAM, see IAM client libraries. For more information, see the IAM Python API reference documentation.

To authenticate to IAM, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Before you begin.

from google.cloud import iam_admin_v1
from google.cloud.iam_admin_v1 import types


def rename_service_account(
    project_id: str, account: str, new_name: str
) -> types.ServiceAccount:
    """
    Renames service account display name.

    project_id: ID or number of the Google Cloud project you want to use.
    account: ID or email which is unique identifier of the service account.
    new_name: New display name of the service account.
    """

    iam_admin_client = iam_admin_v1.IAMClient()

    get_request = types.GetServiceAccountRequest()
    get_request.name = f"projects/{project_id}/serviceAccounts/{account}"
    service_account = iam_admin_client.get_service_account(request=get_request)

    service_account.display_name = new_name

    request = types.PatchServiceAccountRequest()
    request.service_account = service_account
    # You can patch only the `display_name` and `description` fields. You must use
    # the `update_mask` field to specify which of these fields you want to patch.
    # To successfully set update mask you need to transform snake_case field to camelCase.
    # e.g. `display_name` will become `displayName`
    request.update_mask = "displayName"

    updated_account = iam_admin_client.patch_service_account(request=request)
    return updated_account

REST

The serviceAccounts.patch method updates a service account.

Before using any of the request data, make the following replacements:

PROJECT_ID: Your Google Cloud project ID. Project IDs are alphanumeric strings, like my-project.
SA_ID: The ID of your service account. This can either be the service account's email address in the form SA_NAME@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com, or the service account's unique numeric ID.
SA_NAME: The alphanumeric ID of your service account. This name must be between 6 and 30 characters, and can contain lowercase alphanumeric characters and dashes.
Replace at least one of the following:

UPDATED_DISPLAY_NAME: A new display name for your service account.
UPDATED_DESCRIPTION: A new description for your service account.

HTTP method and URL:

PATCH https://iam.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/serviceAccounts/SA_ID

Request JSON body:

{
  "serviceAccount": {
    "email": "SA_NAME@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com",
    "displayName": "UPDATED_DISPLAY_NAME",
    "description": "UPDATED_DESCRIPTION"
  },
  "updateMask": "displayName,description"
}

To send your request, expand one of these options:

curl (Linux, macOS, or Cloud Shell)

Save the request body in a file named request.json, and execute the following command:

curl -X PATCH \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gcloud auth print-access-token)" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8" \
     -d @request.json \
     "https://iam.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/serviceAccounts/SA_ID"

PowerShell (Windows)

Save the request body in a file named request.json, and execute the following command:

$cred = gcloud auth print-access-token
$headers = @{ "Authorization" = "Bearer $cred" }

Invoke-WebRequest `
    -Method PATCH `
    -Headers $headers `
    -ContentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8" `
    -InFile request.json `
    -Uri "https://iam.googleapis.com/v1/projects/PROJECT_ID/serviceAccounts/SA_ID" | Select-Object -Expand Content

APIs Explorer (browser)

Copy the request body and open the method reference page. The APIs Explorer panel opens on the right side of the page. You can interact with this tool to send requests. Paste the request body in this tool, complete any other required fields, and click Execute.

You should receive a JSON response similar to the following:

{
  "name": "projects/my-project/serviceAccounts/my-service-account@my-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com",
  "displayName": "My updated service account",
  "description": "An updated description of my service account"
}

What's next

Learn how to disable and enable service accounts.
Review the process for granting IAM roles to all types of principals, including service accounts.
Explore how you can use role recommendations to downscope permissions for all principals, including service accounts.
Understand how to attach service accounts to resources.

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