Sharing Objects
You can share objects with specific
users, or with all users within your tenant organization. You can also make objects public and
share objects over the Internet.
You can share one object at a time. To share an object,
you edit the access permissions of the object by using the built-in canned access control
lists, or by creating a custom access control list.
If versioning is active for the bucket in which
the object that you want to share resides, you can share a specific version of the object.
Before you share an object, you must verify that
you have the required set of rights.
If you are an ... |
You can ... |
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organization administrator |
share objects that users in your organization own. |
organization user |
you can share objects, if you are the owner of the object, or the owner must
assign either Full
Control , or Read of ACL and Write of ACL permissions
on the object. |
Share an Object by Using a Canned Access
Control List
Canned access
control lists are predefined, built-in access control lists that you can use to
share objects within your organization or publicly over the Internet.
Setting a canned access control list to
an object overwrites existing permissions configuration for the object.
- Log in to theVMware Cloud Director tenant portal.
- In the primary left navigation panel, underMore, selectObject Storage.
- In theBucketspane, navigate to the bucket or folder in which the object that you want to share resides.
- If you want to share a specific version of the object, display all versions of the object by using theShow Versionstoggle button.
- Click the name of the object or the object version that you want to share.
- On thePermissionstab, clickSet Canned ACL.
- Select a canned access control list name for the object and clickSet ACL.PrivateOnly the object owner and theorganization administratorcan access the object.Public ReadGrantsreadpermissions on the object to all users and makes the object public.Public Read/WriteGrantsReadandWritepermissions on the object to all users.Authenticated Users ReadGrantsReadpermissions to all authenticatedVMware Cloud Directorusers.Bucket Owner ReadGrantsReadpermissions on the object to the bucket owner.Bucket Owner Full-ControlGrantsFull Controlpermissions on the object to the bucket owner.Tenant ReadGrantsReadpermissions on the object to all users that belong to the tenant organization.If you useAWS S3, this option is not available.
Share an Object by Using a Custom Access
Control List
To share an object
with specific users within or outside of your organization, you can create a
custom access control list for the object that you want to share.
The following table describes the available access control list options.
Option | Description |
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Full
Control | Grants Read
permissions on the object and Read , and Write permissions on the access control list of the
object. |
Read of
Object | Grants Read
permissions for the object. |
Read of
ACL | Grants Read
permissions for the access control list of the object. |
Write of
ACL | Grants Write permissions for the access control list of
the object. |
- Log in to theVMware Cloud Director tenant portal.
- In the primary left navigation panel, underMore, selectObject Storage.
- In theBucketspane, navigate to the bucket or folder that stores the object that you want to share.
- If you want to share a specific version of the object, display all versions of the object by using theShow Versionstoggle button.
- Click the name of the object or the object version that you want to share.
- On thePermissionstab, clickEdit.
- Configure the required set of permissions on the object and clickSave.
- To share the object with users from your tenant organization, use the toggle buttons in theTenant Usersrow. If you useECSorAWS S3, this option is not available.
- To share the object with authenticated users from all tenant organizations, use the toggle buttons in theAuthenticated Usersrow.
- To share the object with all users, use the toggle buttons in thePublicrow.
- To share the object with a specific user within your organization, click theAdd Userbutton, select the user from the drop-down menu, or enter the organization user name of the user, and use the toggle buttons in the corresponding row.