ModifySecurityGroupAttribute - Elastic Compute Service

Modifies the name or description of a specific security group.

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Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
- The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
- If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.

Operation	Access level	Resource type	Condition key	Associated operation
ecs:ModifySecurityGroupAttribute	update	*SecurityGroup `acs:ecs:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:securitygroup/{#securitygroupId}`	none	none

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
SecurityGroupId	string	Yes	The security group ID.	sg-bp67acfmxazb4p****
Description	string	No	The new description of the security group. The description must be 2 to 256 characters in length and cannot start with `http://` or `https://`. By default, the parameter is empty, which indicates that the description remains unchanged.	TestDescription
SecurityGroupName	string	No	The new name of the security group. The name must be 2 to 128 characters in length. The name must start with a letter and cannot start with `http://` or `https://`. The name can contain letters, digits, colons (:), underscores (_), periods (.), and hyphens (-). By default, the parameter is empty, which indicates that the name remains unchanged.	SecurityGroupTestName
RegionId	string	Yes	The region ID of the security group. You can call the DescribeRegions operation to query the most recent region list.	cn-hangzhou

Response parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Example
	object
RequestId	string	The request ID.	473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "RequestId": "473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E"
}

Error codes

HTTP status code	Error code	Error message	Description
400	InvalidSecurityGroupName.Malformed	Specified security group name is not valid.	The specified SecurityGroupName parameter is invalid. This parameter is empty by default. If you specify a security group name, the name must be 2 to 128 characters in length and start with a letter. It can contain letters, digits, periods (.), underscores (_), and hyphens (-) and cannot start with http:// or https. The security group name is displayed in the ECS console.
400	InvalidSecurityGroupDiscription.Malformed	Specified security group description is not valid.	The specified security group description is invalid.
400	InvalidParameter	Invalid Parameter.	-
400	InvalidSecurityGroupName.Malformed	The specified parameter SecurityGroupName is not valid.	The specified SecurityGroupName parameter is not valid. This parameter is empty by default. If you specify a security group name, the name must be 2 to 128 characters in length and start with a letter. It can contain letters, digits, periods (.), underscores (_), and hyphens (-) and cannot start with http:// or https. The security group name is displayed in the ECS console.
403	InvalidOperation.ResourceManagedByCloudProduct	%s	You cannot modify security groups managed by cloud services.
404	InvalidSecurityGroupId.NotFound	The specified SecurityGroupId does not exist.	The specified security group does not exist in this account. Check whether the security group ID is correct.

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.

Change history

Change time	Summary of changes	Operation
2023-08-31	The Error code has changed	View Change Details