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Delete role

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Delete role

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This API is experimental and may be changed or removed completely in a future release. Although the underlying mechanism of enforcing role-based access control is stable, the APIs for managing the roles are currently experimental.

Note: You cannot access this endpoint via the Console in Kibana.

Authorization

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To use this API, you must have at least the manage_security cluster privilege.

Request

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To delete a role, submit a DELETE request to the /api/security/role/<rolename> endpoint:

DELETE /api/security/role/my_admin_role
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Response

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If the role is successfully deleted, the response code is 204; otherwise, the response code is 404.

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