NAME

gcloud alpha iam service-accounts update - update an IAM service account

SYNOPSIS

gcloud alpha iam service-accounts update SERVICE_ACCOUNT [--description=DESCRIPTION] [--display-name=DISPLAY_NAME] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG ...]

DESCRIPTION

(ALPHA) Update an IAM service account.

If the service account does not exist, this command returns a PERMISSION_DENIED error.

EXAMPLES

To update the description and display name for a service account, run:

$ gcloud alpha iam service-accounts update \ my-iam-account@my-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com \ --description="Updated description." \ --display-name="Updated Name"

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

ServiceAccount resource - The service account to update. The account should be

formatted either as a numeric service account ID or as an email, like this: 123456789876543212345 or my-iam-account@somedomain.com. This represents a Cloud resource. (NOTE) Some attributes are not given arguments in this group but can be set in other ways. To set the project attribute:

provide the argument service_account on the command line with a fully specified name;

set the property core/project;

provide the argument --project on the command line.

This must be specified.

SERVICE_ACCOUNT

ID of the serviceAccount or fully qualified identifier for the serviceAccount. To set the service_account attribute:

  • provide the argument service_account on the command line.

FLAGS

--description=DESCRIPTION

The new textual description for the account.

--display-name=DISPLAY_NAME

The new textual name to display for the account.

GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS

These flags are available to all commands: --access-token-file, --account, --billing-project, --configuration, --flags-file, --flatten, --format, --help, --impersonate-service-account, --log-http, --project, --quiet, --trace-token, --user-output-enabled, --verbosity.

Run $ gcloud help for details.

API REFERENCE

This command uses the iam/v1 API. The full documentation for this API can be found at: https://cloud.google.com/iam/

NOTES

This command is currently in alpha and might change without notice. If this command fails with API permission errors despite specifying the correct project, you might be trying to access an API with an invitation-only early access allowlist. These variants are also available:

$ gcloud iam service-accounts update

$ gcloud beta iam service-accounts update