Grant your originating account the Service Account Token Creator role on the target service account

Question

I used the below command to Authenticate in MAC OS terminal

gcloud auth login

It redirects to the google login page and show the authentication process successful.

While using the command

gsutil -i [email protected] ls

Getting an exception as

AccessDeniedException: Service account impersonation failed. Please go to the Google Cloud Platform Console (https://cloud.google.com/console), select IAM & admin, then Service Accounts, and grant your originating account the Service Account Token Creator role on the target service account.

However, on the cloud I do have given the permission as shown below

Auth List

Answer 1

The current logged in user ([email protected]) must have the Service Account Access Token Creator role.

You might think the owner role would be sufficient, however, when I tested this myself you need to explicitly add it to the account that is impersonating the service account.

https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/service-accounts#token-creator-role