Granting Anonymous Users Public Read Permissions on a Bucket

Scenario

If a bucket needs to be accessed by anonymous users, you can configure a bucket policy and bucket ACL to grant the access permission to anonymous users. The following uses a bucket policy as an example.

Configuration Precautions

The Public Read policy allows any user to read objects in a bucket. Public Read has the following permissions:

• GetObject: downloading objects
• GetObjectVersion: downloading versioned objects
• HeadBucket: checking whether a bucket exists
• ListBucket: listing objects in a bucket and obtaining the bucket metadata
  

  When you access a bucket through its domain name, the ListBucket permission allows you to list all objects in the bucket. If you want to restrict this permission to specified users under an account, see Related Scenario: Canceling the ListBucket Permission from the Public Read Policy.

Procedure

1. In the navigation pane of OBS Console, choose Object Storage.
2. In the bucket list, click the bucket name you want to go to the Overview page.
3. In the navigation pane, choose Permissions.
4. On the Bucket Policies tab page, select the Public Read policy for the bucket in the Standard Bucket Policies area.
   Figure 1 Granting public read permissions on buckets to anonymous users
   

Verification

1. After the permission is set, in the Basic Information area of the bucket details page, locate Access Domain Name. Share the URL of the access domain name over the Internet so that all Internet users can access the bucket.
2. On the Objects tab page of the bucket, click the target object name and find the object link. Share the object link over the Internet so that all Internet users can access the object.

Related Scenario: Canceling the ListBucket Permission from the Public Read Policy

If you want to restrict the ListBucket permission to specified users under an account, you need to configure another bucket policy.

1. In the navigation pane of OBS Console, choose Object Storage.
2. In the bucket list, click the bucket name you want to go to the Overview page.
3. In the navigation pane, choose Permissions.
4. On the Bucket Policies page, click Create Bucket Policy under Custom Bucket Policies.
5. Configure parameters for a bucket policy.
   Figure 2 Configuring parameters for a bucket policy
   

   Table 1 Parameters for creating a bucket policy

   Parameter	Description
   Policy Mode	Select Customized.
   Effect	Select Deny.
   Principal	Select Exclude. Select Cloud service user. Account ID: Enter * to indicate all anonymous users. User ID: Enter one or more user IDs separated by a comma (,).
   Resources	Select Include > Entire bucket.
   Actions	Include Action Name: ListBucket

6. Click OK. The bucket policy is created.

Verification: After the permission is set, in the Basic Information area of the bucket details page, locate Access Domain Name. Publish the URL on the Internet, and verify that only specified users can list objects in the bucket.