Delete a user

Deletes a user. The API immediately logs the user out and removes their access to all Akamai Cloud services.

Parent and child accounts

In the context of the parent and child accounts feature, you can't delete a user with the delegate user type on a child account.

Permissions and scopes

To call this operation, you need permissions, based on the model you're using:

  • Identity and access permissions. Your user needs a role with these permissions. Learn more.

    • Permissions: delete_user
  • OAuth scopes. Your user needs these scopes assigned. Learn more.

    • Scopes: account:read_write

CLI

linode-cli users delete example_user

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Path Params
string
enum
required

Enum Call either the v4 URL, or v4beta for operations still in Beta.

Allowed:
string
required

The username to look up.

Responses

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