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/AWS1/CL_WAR=>PUTPERMISSIONPOLICY()

About PutPermissionPolicy

This is AWS WAF Classic documentation. For more information, see AWS WAF Classic in the developer guide.

For the latest version of AWS WAF, use the AWS WAFV2 API and see the AWS WAF Developer Guide. With the latest version, AWS WAF has a single set of endpoints for regional and global use.

Attaches an IAM policy to the specified resource. The only supported use for this action is to share a RuleGroup across accounts.

The PutPermissionPolicy is subject to the following restrictions:

  • You can attach only one policy with each PutPermissionPolicy request.

  • The policy must include an Effect, Action and Principal.

  • Effect must specify Allow.

  • The Action in the policy must be waf:UpdateWebACL, waf-regional:UpdateWebACL, waf:GetRuleGroup and waf-regional:GetRuleGroup . Any extra or wildcard actions in the policy will be rejected.

  • The policy cannot include a Resource parameter.

  • The ARN in the request must be a valid WAF RuleGroup ARN and the RuleGroup must exist in the same region.

  • The user making the request must be the owner of the RuleGroup.

  • Your policy must be composed using IAM Policy version 2012-10-17.

For more information, see IAM Policies.

An example of a valid policy parameter is shown in the Examples section below.

Method Signature

IMPORTING

Required arguments:

IV_RESOURCEARN TYPE /AWS1/WARRESOURCEARN /AWS1/WARRESOURCEARN

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the RuleGroup to which you want to attach the policy.

IV_POLICY TYPE /AWS1/WARPOLICYSTRING /AWS1/WARPOLICYSTRING

The policy to attach to the specified RuleGroup.

RETURNING

OO_OUTPUT TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_WARPUTPERMPOLICYRSP /AWS1/CL_WARPUTPERMPOLICYRSP