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PUT Object acl

Description

This implementation of the PUT operation uses the acl subresource to set the access control list (ACL) permissions for an object that already exists in a bucket. You must have WRITE_ACP permission to set the ACL of an object.

You can use one of the following two ways to set an object's permissions:

Specify the ACL in the request body, or
Specify permissions using request headers

Depending on your application needs, you may choose to set the ACL on an object using either the request body or the headers. For example, if you have an existing application that updates an object ACL using the request body, then you can continue to use that approach.

Versioning

The ACL of an object is set at the object version level. By default, PUT sets the ACL of the latest version of an object. To set the ACL of a different version, use the versionId subresource.

To see sample requests that use versioning, see Sample Request: Setting the ACL of a specified object version.

Requests

Syntax

The following request shows the syntax for sending the ACL in the request body. If you want to use headers to specify the permissions for the object, you cannot send the ACL in the request body. Instead, see the Request Headers section for a list of headers you can use.

PUT /ObjectName?acl HTTP/1.1
Host: BucketName.s3.amazonaws.com
Date: date
Authorization: signatureValue

<AccessControlPolicy>
  <Owner>
    <ID>ID</ID>
    <DisplayName>EmailAddress</DisplayName>
  </Owner>
  <AccessControlList>
    <Grant>
      <Grantee xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="CanonicalUser">
        <ID>ID</ID>
        <DisplayName>EmailAddress</DisplayName>
      </Grantee>
      <Permission>Permission</Permission>
    </Grant>
    ...
  </AccessControlList>
</AccessControlPolicy>

Note

The syntax shows some of the request headers. For a complete list see the Request Headers section.

Request Parameters

This implementation of the operation does not use request parameters.

Request Headers

You can use the following request headers in addition to the Common Request Headers.

These headers enable you to set access permissions using one of the following methods:

Specify canned ACL, or
Specify the permission for each grantee explicitly

Amazon S3 supports a set of predefined ACLs, known as canned ACLs. Each canned ACL has a predefined a set of grantees and permissions. For more information, see Canned ACL. To grant access permissions by specifying canned ACLs, you use the following header and specify the canned ACL name as its value. If you use this header, you cannot use other access control-specific headers in your request.

Name Description Required

Name	Description	Required
`x-amz-acl`	The canned ACL to apply to the object. For more information, go to Canned ACL in the Amazon Simple . Type: String Valid Values: `private` \| `public-read` \| `public-read-write` \| `authenticated-read` \| `bucket-owner-read` \| `bucket-owner-full-control` Default: private	No

x-amz-acl

The canned ACL to apply to the object. For more information, go to Canned ACL in the Amazon Simple .

Type: String

Default: private

If you need to grant individualized access permissions on an object, you can use the following x-amz-grant-permission headers. When using these headers you specify explicit access permissions and grantees (AWS accounts or Amazon S3 groups) who will receive the permission. If you use these ACL specific headers, you cannot use x-amz-acl header to set a canned ACL.

Note

Each of the following request headers maps to specific permissions Amazon S3 supports in an ACL. For more information, go to Access Control List (ACL) Overview.

Name	Description	Required
`x-amz-grant-read`	Allows the specified grantee to list the objects in the bucket. Type: String Default: None Constraints: None	No
`x-amz-grant-write`	Not applicable when granting access permissions on objects. You can use this when granting access permissions on buckets. Type: String Default: None Constraints: None	No
`x-amz-grant-read-acp`	Allows the specified grantee to read the bucket ACL. Type: String Default: None Constraints: None	No
`x-amz-grant-write-acp`	Allows the specified grantee to write the ACL for the applicable bucket. Type: String Default: None Constraints: None	No
`x-amz-grant-full-control`	Allows the specified grantee the READ, WRITE, READ_ACP, and WRITE_ACP permissions on the bucket. Type: String Default: None Constraints: None	No

For each of these headers, the value is a comma-separated list of one or more grantees. You specify each grantee as a type=value pair, where the type can be one of the following:

emailAddress — if value specified is the email address of an AWS account
id — if value specified is the canonical user ID of an AWS account
uri — if granting permission to a predefined group.

For example, the following x-amz-grant-read header grants list objects permission to the two AWS accounts identified by their email addresses.

x-amz-grant-read: emailAddress="xyz@amazon.com", emailAddress="abc@amazon.com"

For more information, go to Access Control List (ACL) Overview.

Request Elements

If you decide to use the request body to specify an ACL, you must use the following elements.

Note

If you use the request body, you cannot use the request headers to set an ACL.

Name	Description
`AccessControlList`	Container for ACL information Type: Container Ancestors: `AccessControlPolicy`
`AccessControlPolicy`	Contains the elements that set the ACL permissions for an object per grantee Type: Container Ancestors: None
`DisplayName`	Screen name of the bucket owner Type: String Ancestors: `AccessControlPolicy.Owner`
`Grant`	Container for the grantee and his or her permissions Type: Container Ancestors: `AccessControlPolicy.AccessControlList`
`Grantee`	The subject whose permissions are being set. Type: String Valid Values: `DisplayName` \| `EmailAddress` \| `AuthenticatedUser`. For more information, see Grantee Values. Ancestors: AccessControlPolicy.AccessControlList.Grant
`ID`	ID of the bucket owner, or the ID of the grantee Type: String Ancestors: `AccessControlPolicy.Owner` or `AccessControlPolicy.AccessControlList.Grant`
`Owner`	Container for the bucket owner's display name and ID Type: Container Ancestors: `AccessControlPolicy`
`Permission`	Specifies the permission given to the grantee Type: String Valid Values: FULL_CONTROL \| WRITE \| WRITE_ACP \| READ \| READ_ACP Ancestors: `AccessControlPolicy.AccessControlList.Grant`

Grantee Values

You can specify the person (grantee) to whom you're assigning access rights (using request elements) in the following ways:

By the person's ID:

<Grantee xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="CanonicalUser">
  <ID>ID</ID>
  <DisplayName>GranteesEmail</DisplayName>
</Grantee>

DisplayName is optional and ignored in the request.

By Email address:

<Grantee xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="AmazonCustomerByEmail">
  <EmailAddress>Grantees@email.com</EmailAddress>
</Grantee>

The grantee is resolved to the CanonicalUser and, in a response to a GET Object acl request, appears as the CanonicalUser.

By URI:

<Grantee xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="Group">
  <URI>http://acs.amazonaws.com/groups/global/AuthenticatedUsers<URI>
</Grantee>

Responses

Response Headers

This implementation of the operation can include the following response headers in addition to the response headers common to all responses. For more information, see Common Response Headers.

Name Description

Name	Description
`x-amz-version-id`	Version of the object whose ACL is being set. Type: String Default: None

x-amz-version-id

Version of the object whose ACL is being set.

Type: String

Default: None

Response Elements

This operation does not return response elements.

Special Errors

This operation does not return special errors. For general information about Amazon S3 errors and a list of error codes, see Error Responses.

Examples

Sample Request

The following request grants access permission to an existing object. The request specifies the ACL in the body. In addition to granting full control to the object owner, the XML specifies full control to an AWS account identified by its canonical user ID.

PUT /my-image.jpg?acl HTTP/1.1
Host: bucket.s3.amazonaws.com
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:00 GMT
Authorization: AWS AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE:xQE0diMbLRepdf3YB+FIEXAMPLE=
Content-Length: 124

<AccessControlPolicy>
  <Owner>
    <ID>75aa57f09aa0c8caeab4f8c24e99d10f8e7faeebf76c078efc7c6caea54ba06a</ID>
    <DisplayName>CustomersName@amazon.com</DisplayName>
  </Owner>
  <AccessControlList>
    <Grant>
      <Grantee xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="CanonicalUser">
        <ID>75aa57f09aa0c8caeab4f8c24e99d10f8e7faeeExampleCanonicalUserID</ID>
        <DisplayName>CustomerName@amazon.com</DisplayName>
      </Grantee>
      <Permission>FULL_CONTROL</Permission>
    </Grant>
  </AccessControlList>
</AccessControlPolicy>

Sample Response

The following shows a sample response when versioning on the bucket is enabled.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amz-id-2: eftixk72aD6Ap51T9AS1ed4OpIszj7UDNEHGran
x-amz-request-id: 318BC8BC148832E5
x-amz-version-id: 3/L4kqtJlcpXrof3vjVBH40Nr8X8gdRQBpUMLUo
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 12:00:00 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Server: AmazonS3

Sample Request: Setting the ACL of a specified object version

The following request sets the ACL on the specified version of the object.

PUT /my-image.jpg?acl&versionId=3HL4kqtJlcpXroDTDmJ+rmSpXd3dIbrHY+MTRCxf3vjVBH40Nrjfkd HTTP/1.1
Host: bucket.s3.amazonaws.com
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:00 GMT
Authorization: AWS AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE:xQE0diMbLRepdf3YB+FIEXAMPLE=
Content-Length: 124
 
<AccessControlPolicy>
  <Owner>
    <ID>75aa57f09aa0c8caeab4f8c24e99d10f8e7faeebf76c078efc7c6caea54ba06a</ID>
    <DisplayName>mtd@amazon.com</DisplayName>
  </Owner>
  <AccessControlList>
    <Grant>
      <Grantee xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:type="CanonicalUser">
        <ID>75aa57f09aa0c8caeab4f8c24e99d10f8e7faeebf76c078efc7c6caea54ba06a</ID>
        <DisplayName>mtd@amazon.com</DisplayName>
      </Grantee>
      <Permission>FULL_CONTROL</Permission>
    </Grant>
  </AccessControlList>
</AccessControlPolicy>

Sample Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amz-id-2: eftixk72aD6Ap51u8yU9AS1ed4OpIszj7UDNEHGran
x-amz-request-id: 318BC8BC148832E5
x-amz-version-id: 3/L4kqtJlcpXro3vjVBH40Nr8X8gdRQBpUMLUo
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 12:00:00 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Server: AmazonS3

Sample Request: Access permissions specified using headers

The following request uses ACL-specific request headers, x-amz-acl, and specifies a canned ACL (public_read) to grant object read access to everyone.

PUT ExampleObject.txt?acl HTTP/1.1
Host: examplebucket.s3.amazonaws.com
x-amz-acl: public-read
Accept: */*
Authorization: AWS AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE:xQE0diMbLRepdf3YB+FIEXAMPLE=
Host: s3.amazonaws.com
Connection: Keep-Alive

Sample Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amz-id-2: w5YegkbG6ZDsje4WK56RWPxNQHIQ0CjrjyRVFZhEJI9E3kbabXnBO9w5G7Dmxsgk
x-amz-request-id: C13B2827BD8455B1
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:24:12 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Server: AmazonS3

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PUT Object acl

Description

Versioning

Requests

Syntax

Request Parameters

Request Headers

Request Elements

Grantee Values

Responses

Response Headers

Response Elements

Special Errors

Examples

Sample Request

Sample Response

Sample Request: Setting the ACL of a specified object version

Sample Response

Sample Request: Access permissions specified using headers

Sample Response

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