Table: ibm_iam_user_policy - Query IBM IAM User Policies using SQL

IBM Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a service within IBM Cloud that allows you to manage access to resources and applications. It provides a centralized way to manage users, roles, and permissions across your IBM Cloud resources. IAM helps you ensure that only authorized users have access to specific resources and can perform specific actions.

Table Usage Guide

The ibm_iam_user_policy table provides insights into user policies within IBM Identity and Access Management (IAM). As a security engineer, explore policy-specific details through this table, including policy roles, resources, and associated metadata. Utilize it to uncover information about policies, such as those with specific permissions, the relationships between users and policies, and the verification of policy roles.

Examples

Basic info

Explore which user policies are in effect within your IBM IAM setup. This allows you to identify instances where permissions may be overly broad or insufficient, enhancing overall security and compliance.

select
  id,
  type,
  created_by_id,
  href,
  roles
from
  ibm_iam_user_policy;

select
  id,
  type,
  created_by_id,
  href,
  roles
from
  ibm_iam_user_policy;

List all system created policies

Explore which policies have been created automatically by the system. This is useful for understanding system-level permissions and roles.

select
  id,
  type,
  created_by_id,
  href,
  roles
from
  ibm_iam_user_policy
where
  created_by_id = 'system';

select
  id,
  type,
  created_by_id,
  href,
  roles
from
  ibm_iam_user_policy
where
  created_by_id = 'system';

Schema for ibm_iam_user_policy

Name	Type	Description
_ctx	jsonb	Steampipe context in JSON form, e.g. connection_name.
account_id	text	ID of the account that this policy belongs to.
created_at	timestamp with time zone	The time when the policy was created.
created_by_id	text	The iam ID of the entity that created the policy.
description	text	The description of the IAM access group.
href	text	The href link back to the policy.
iam_id	text	An alphanumeric value identifying the user's IAM ID.
id	text	The ID of the IAM user policy.
last_modified_at	timestamp with time zone	The timestamp when the policy was last modified.
last_modified_by_id	text	The iam ID of the entity that last modified the policy.
resources	jsonb	The resources associated with a policy.
roles	jsonb	A set of role cloud resource names (CRNs) granted by the policy.
subjects	jsonb	The subjects associated with a policy.
type	text	The policy type.

Export

This table is available as a standalone Exporter CLI. Steampipe exporters are stand-alone binaries that allow you to extract data using Steampipe plugins without a database.

You can download the tarball for your platform from the Releases page, but it is simplest to install them with the steampipe_export_installer.sh script:

/bin/sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://steampipe.io/install/export.sh)" -- ibm

You can pass the configuration to the command with the --config argument:

steampipe_export_ibm --config '<your_config>' ibm_iam_user_policy