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Deleting a Service-specific Credential

Function

This API is used to delete a service-specific credential.

Authorization Information

Each account root user has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the following required identity policy-based permissions. For details about the required permissions, see Permissions Policies and Supported Actions.

Action

Access Level

Resource Type (*: required)

Condition Key

Alias

Dependencies

iam:serviceSpecificCredentials:deleteV5

Write

user *

  • g:ResourceTag/<tag-key>

  • iam:ResourceIsRootUser

-

-

-

iam:ServiceSpecificCredentialServiceName

URI

DELETE /v5/users/{user_id}/service-specific-credentials/{credential_id}

Table 1 Path Parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

credential_id

Yes

String

Definition

ID of a service-specific credential.

Constraints

N/A

Range

The value is fixed at 20 characters in the format of HSSC followed by 16 random characters. Only letters and digits are allowed.

Default Value

N/A

user_id

Yes

String

Definition

IAM user ID.

Constraints

The user ID must exist and be valid.

Range

The value contains 1 to 64 characters and must comply with the regular expression ^[a-zA-Z0-9-]{1,64}$.

Default Value

N/A

Request Parameters

None

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

None

Status code: 400

Table 2 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Definition :

Error code. For details, see Error Code.

Range:

The format is PAP5.XXXX, for example, PAP5.0012.

error_msg

String

Definition :

Error message. For details, see Error Message.

Range:

N/A.

request_id

String

Definition:

Unique identifier of an API request, which is used to locate API calling exceptions.

Range:

N/A

Status code: 403

Table 3 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Definition :

Error code. For details, see Error Code.

Range:

The format is PAP5.XXXX, for example, PAP5.0012.

error_msg

String

Definition :

Error message. For details, see Error Message.

Range:

N/A.

request_id

String

Definition:

Unique identifier of an API request, which is used to locate API calling exceptions.

Range:

N/A

encoded_authorization_message

String

Definition :

Encrypted details returned when the authentication fails, which are used to locate authentication problems. The STS5 decryption API can be used for decryption. For details, see API link.

Range:

N/A.

Status code: 404

Table 4 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Definition :

Error code. For details, see Error Code.

Range:

The format is PAP5.XXXX, for example, PAP5.0012.

error_msg

String

Definition :

Error message. For details, see Error Message.

Range:

N/A.

request_id

String

Definition:

Unique identifier of an API request, which is used to locate API calling exceptions.

Range:

N/A

Example Requests

None

Example Responses

None

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

200

Request succeeded.

400

Abnormal request body.

403

No operation permissions.

404

IAM user or credential not found.

Error Codes

See Error Codes.