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Deleting a Permanent Access Key

Function

This API can be used by the administrator to delete the specified permanent access key of an IAM user or used by an IAM user to delete one of their own permanent access keys.

The API can be called using both the global endpoint and region-specific endpoints. For IAM endpoints, see Regions and Endpoints.

URI

DELETE /v3.0/OS-CREDENTIAL/credentials/{access_key}

Table 1 URI parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

access_key

Yes

String

AK to be deleted.

Request Parameters

Table 2 Parameters in the request header

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

Content-Type

Yes

String

Fill application/json;charset=utf8 in this field.

X-Auth-Token

Yes

String

A token with Security Administrator permissions is required if the administrator is requesting to delete a specified permanent access key of an IAM user.

If an IAM user is requesting to delete one of their own permanent access keys, the user token (no special permission requirements) of the user is required.

Response Parameters

None

Example Request

DELETE https://iam.myhuaweicloud.com/v3.0/OS-CREDENTIAL/credentials/{access_key}

Example Response

None

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

204

The access key is deleted successfully.

400

Invalid parameters.

401

Authentication failed.

403

Access denied.

404

The requested resource cannot be found.

500

Internal server error.

Error Codes

None

Parent topic: Access Key Management