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Quickstart: Check access for a user to Azure resources

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Sometimes you need to check what access a user has to a set of Azure resources. You check their access by listing their assignments. A quick way to check the access for a single user is to use the Check access feature on the Access control (IAM) page.

Step 1: Open the Azure resources

To check the access for a user, you first need to open the Azure resources you want to check access for. Azure resources are organized into levels that are typically called the scope. In Azure, you can specify a scope at four levels from broad to narrow: management group, subscription, resource group, and resource.

Diagram that shows scope levels for Azure RBAC.

Follow these steps to open the set of Azure resources that you want to check access for.

  1. Open the Azure portal.

  2. Open the set of Azure resources you want to check access for, such as Management groups, Subscriptions, Resource groups, or a particular resource.

  3. Click the specific resource in that scope.

    The following shows an example resource group.

    Screenshot of resource group overview.

Step 2: Check access for a user

Follow these steps to check the access for a single user, group, service principal, or managed identity to the previously selected Azure resources.

  1. Click Access control (IAM).

    The following shows an example of the Access control (IAM) page for a resource group.

    Screenshot of resource group access control and Check access tab.

  2. On the Check access tab, click the Check access button.

  3. In the Check access pane, click User, group, or service principal.

  4. In the search box, enter a string to search the directory for display names, email addresses, or object identifiers.

    Screenshot of Check access select list.

  5. Click the user to open the assignments pane.

    On this pane, you can see the access for the selected user at this scope and inherited to this scope. Assignments at child scopes are not listed. You see the following assignments:

    • Role assignments added with Azure RBAC.
    • Deny assignments added using Azure Blueprints or Azure managed apps.
    • Classic Service Administrator or Co-Administrator assignments for classic deployments.

    Screenshot of role and deny assignments pane for a user.

Step 3: Check your access

Follow these steps to check your access to the previously selected Azure resources.

  1. Click Access control (IAM).

  2. On the Check access tab, click the View my access button.

    An assignments pane appears that lists your access at this scope and inherited to this scope. Assignments at child scopes are not listed.

    Screenshot of role and deny assignments pane.

Next steps

List Azure role assignments using the Azure portal