Understanding of secrets move command

Vault
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There’s some test vault installation
There’s some role with policy like this

path "sys/mounts" { capabilities = ["list", "read", "create", "update", "delete"] }
path "sys/mounts/*" { capabilities = ["list", "read", "create", "update", "delete"] }
path "sys/remount" { capabilities = ["list", "read", "create", "update", "delete"] }

When i try to remount storage i got error

vault secrets move secret/path1 secret/path2 
Error moving secrets engine secret/path1/ to secret/path2/: Error making API request.

URL: POST http://vault.local:8200/v1/sys/remount
Code: 403. Errors:

* 1 error occurred:
        * permission denied

Same command via CURL

curl -X POST -H "X-Vault-Request: true" -H "X-Vault-Token: $(vault print token)" -d '{"from":"secret/path1","to":"secret/path2"}' http://vault.local:8200/v1/sys/remount

{"errors":["1 error occurred:\n\t* permission denied\n\n"]}

What am i doing wrong? Should i ask for additional permissions?

2

Is secret the mount or secret/path1'? What does list secrets` show?

vault secrets move moves secret engine mounts, not paths within a secret.

Can you perform the operation with a root/highly priv’d token?

3

I try to move KV storage to another path.
There’s secret/path1 KV1 storage

vault secrets list 
secret/path1                                 kv                                   kv_9bd5a550           description

It works with root token.

Is there any case to define what privilege required to execute any action?

4

So that should work. I’m not familiar with policy for remount, but you might try adding sudo to the sys/remount policy. It might be a root protected path.

5

yeap.
it’s root protected

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