Help Center/ GaussDB/ User Guide/ Database Use/ Authentication Configurations/ Deleting a Client Authentication Configuration
Updated on 2025-09-05 GMT+08:00

Deleting a Client Authentication Configuration

Scenarios

You can delete a client authentication configuration record based on your application requirements. After a record is deleted, that configuration becomes invalid. Existing sessions that were authenticated under the configuration continue to work, but new sessions that would rely on the deleted configuration will fail to connect. Ensure that the configuration you are deleting aligns with your application requirements.

Constraints

  • Client authentication configurations can only be deleted for an instance when all its nodes are in the available state.
  • In a cross-region disaster recovery scenario, deleting a client authentication configuration on the primary instance is not automatically synchronized to the DR instance. If you also need to remove the same configuration on the DR instance, manually delete it on the DR instance.
  • For centralized instances, configuration changes are synchronized across all nodes. For distributed instances, changes are synchronized across all CN components.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region and project.
  3. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Databases > GaussDB.
  4. On the Instances page, click the name of the target instance to go to the Basic Information page.
  5. In the navigation pane, choose Database Management > Client Authentication.
  6. On the Authentication Configurations tab, locate the target configuration and click Delete in the Operation column.

    Figure 1 Deleting a client authentication configuration

  7. In the displayed dialog box, enter DELETE and click OK.

    Figure 2 Deleting a client authentication configuration

  8. Check whether the target configuration is deleted.