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Attaches a resource-based permission policy to a secret. A resource-based policy is optional. For more information, see Authentication and access control for Secrets Manager

For information about attaching a policy in the console, see Attach a permissions policy to a secret.

Secrets Manager generates a CloudTrail log entry when you call this action. Do not include sensitive information in request parameters because it might be logged. For more information, see Logging Secrets Manager events with CloudTrail.

Required permissions: secretsmanager:PutResourcePolicy. For more information, see IAM policy actions for Secrets Manager and Authentication and access control in Secrets Manager.

post/#X-Amz-Target=secretsmanager.PutResourcePolicy

Headers

X-Amz-Target'secretsmanager.PutResourcePolicy' required

Request body

SecretIdstring required
<p>The ARN or name of the secret to attach the resource-based policy.</p> <p>For an ARN, we recommend that you specify a complete ARN rather than a partial ARN. See <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/troubleshoot.html#ARN_secretnamehyphen">Finding a secret from a partial ARN</a>.</p>
ResourcePolicystring required

A JSON-formatted string for an Amazon Web Services resource-based policy. For example policies, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/auth-and-access_examples.html">Permissions policy examples</a>.

BlockPublicPolicyboolean

Specifies whether to block resource-based policies that allow broad access to the secret, for example those that use a wildcard for the principal. By default, public policies aren't blocked.

Response

Success

ARNstring

The ARN of the secret.

Namestring

The name of the secret.

Example response

{
  "ARN": "arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-west-2:123456789012:secret:MyTestDatabaseSecret-a1b2c3",
  "Name": "MyTestDatabaseSecret"
}