gcloud iam service-accounts update

NAME
gcloud iam service-accounts update - update an IAM service account
SYNOPSIS
gcloud iam service-accounts updateSERVICE_ACCOUNT[--description=DESCRIPTION][--display-name=DISPLAY_NAME][GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
DESCRIPTION
Update an IAM service account.

If the service account does not exist, this command returns aPERMISSION_DENIED error.

EXAMPLES
To update the description and display name for a service account, run:
gcloudiamservice-accountsupdatemy-iam-account@my-project.iam.gserviceaccount.com--description="Updated description."--display-name="Updated Name"
POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
ServiceAccount resource - The service account to update. The account should beformatted either as a numeric service account ID or as an email, like this:123456789876543212345 or my-iam-account@somedomain.com. This represents a Cloudresource. (NOTE) Some attributes are not given arguments in this group but canbe set in other ways.

To set theproject attribute:

  • provide the argumentservice_account on the command line with afully specified name;
  • provide the argument--project on the command line;
  • set the propertycore/project.

This must be specified.

SERVICE_ACCOUNT
ID of the serviceAccount or fully qualified identifier for the serviceAccount.

To set theservice_account attribute:

  • provide the argumentservice_account on the command line.
FLAGS
--description=DESCRIPTION
The new textual description for the account.
--display-name=DISPLAY_NAME
The new textual name to display for the account.
GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
These flags are available to all commands:--access-token-file,--account,--billing-project,--configuration,--flags-file,--flatten,--format,--help,--impersonate-service-account,--log-http,--project,--quiet,--trace-token,--user-output-enabled,--verbosity.

Run$gcloud help for details.

API REFERENCE
This command uses theiam/v1 API. The full documentation for thisAPI can be found at:https://cloud.google.com/iam/
NOTES
These variants are also available:
gcloudalphaiamservice-accountsupdate
gcloudbetaiamservice-accountsupdate

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Last updated 2025-05-07 UTC.